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Domain registrar Namecheap had their email account breached Sunday night, causing a flood of MetaMask and DHL phishing emails that attempted to steal recipients' personal information and cryptocurrency wallets. The phishing campaigns started around 4:30 PM ET and originated from SendGrid, an email platform used historically by Namecheap to send renewal notices and marketing emails.
A new phishing campaign targeting Amazon Web Services logins is abusing Google ads to sneak phishing sites into Google Search to steal your login credentials. The malicious Google ads take the victim to a blogger website under the attackers' control, which is a copy of a legitimate vegan food blog.
A threat actor named InTheBox is promoting on Russian cybercrime forums an inventory of 1,894 web injects for stealing credentials and sensitive data from banking, cryptocurrency exchange, and e-commerce apps. Typically, mobile banking trojans check what apps are present on an infected device and pull from the command and control server the web injects corresponding to the apps of interest.
Microsoft has disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Partner Network accounts for creating malicious OAuth applications that breached organizations' cloud environments to steal email. In a joint announcement between Microsoft and Proofpoint, Microsoft says the threat actors posed as legitimate companies to enroll and successfully be verified as that company in the MCPP. The threat actors used these accounts to register verified OAuth apps in Azure AD for consent phishing attacks targeting corporate users in the UK and Ireland.
Porsche cut its minting of a new NFT collection short after a dismal turnout and backlash from the crypto community, allowing threat actors to fill the void by creating phishing sites that steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets. To make matters worse, a flourishing NFT resale market was set up over at OpenSea, where it was cheaper to buy the Porsche collectibles than get the original, which devalued the assets immediately and further infuriated investors and traders.
This is a good list of modern phishing techniques.
Bitwarden and other password managers are being targeted in Google ads phishing campaigns to steal users' password vault credentials. Unless you use a local password manager, like KeePass, most password managers are cloud-based, allowing users to access their passwords through websites and mobile apps.
An unusual phishing technique has been observed in the wild, hiding empty SVG files inside HTML attachments pretending to be DocuSign documents. Security researchers at email security provider Avanan named it "Blank Image." They explain that the attack allows phishing actors to evade detection of redirect URLs.
GPT-3 language models are being abused to do much more than write college essays, according to WithSecure researchers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, GPT-3 proved to be helpful at crafting a convincing email thread to use in a phishing campaign and social media posts, complete with hashtags, to harass a made-up CEO of a robotics company.
The notorious information-stealer known as Vidar is continuing to leverage popular social media services such as TikTok, Telegram, Steam, and Mastodon as an intermediate command-and-control server. What's new in the latest version of the malware is that the gathered data is encoded prior to exfiltration, a change from the previous variants that have been known to send the compressed file data in plaintext format.