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An ongoing, large-scale phishing campaign is targeting owners of business email accounts at companies in the FinTech, Lending, Insurance, Energy and Manufacturing sectors in the US, UK, New Zealand and Australia, Zscaler researchers are warning. The attackers are using a variety of tecniques and tactics to evade corporate email security solutions and a custom phishing kit that allows them to bypass multi-factor authentication protection to hijack enterprise Microsoft accounts.
The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "Hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, which disclosed specifics of the attack campaigns, said it identified no less than 3,000 emails containing IPFS phishing URLs as an attack vector in the last three months.
Vade announced its H1 2022 Phishers' Favorites report, a ranking of the top 25 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks. With 11,041 unique phishing URLs, Microsoft is the top target for brand impersonation.
Threat groups are increasingly turning to InterPlanetary File System peer-to-peer data sites to host their phishing attacks because the decentralized nature of the sharing system means malicious content is more effective and easier to hide. Threat analysts with cybersecurity vendor Trustwave this week said the InterPlanetary File System is becoming the "New hotbed of phishing" after seeing an increase in the number of phishing emails that contain IPFS URLs.
While the organization needs to adjust to conduct business as usual with 75% of the workforce in place, it is now even more prone to phishing attacks. In the ever-evolving war between hackers and organizations, 3.4 billion phishing attacks are raining on us every day.
The Federal Communications Commission warned Americans of an increasing wave of SMS phishing attacks attempting to steal their personal information and money. "The FCC tracks consumer complaints - rather than call or text volume - and complaints about unwanted text messages have risen steadily in recent years from approximately 5,700 in 2019, 14,000 in 2020, 15,300 in 2021, to 8,500 through June 30, 2022," the US communications watchdog's Robocall Response Team said [PDF].
A new phishing as a service platform named 'Robin Banks' has been launched, offering ready-made phishing kits targeting the customers of well-known banks and online services. According to a report by IronNet, whose analysts discovered the new phishing platform, Robin Banks is already being deployed in large-scale campaigns that started in mid-June, targeting victims via SMS and email.
The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake messages abusing popular brands compared to the year prior. Microsoft, Facebook and French bank Crédit Agricole are the top abused brands in attacks, according to study on phishing released Tuesday.
A new phishing campaign codenamed 'Ducktail' is underway, targeting professionals on LinkedIn to take over Facebook business accounts that manage advertising for the company. The threat actor reaches out to employees on LinkedIn who could have Facebook business account access, for example, people listed as working in "Digital media" and "Digital marketing" as their roles.
The operators of the QBot malware have been using the Windows Calculator to side-load the malicious payload on infected computers. Security researcher ProxyLife recently discovered that Qakbot, has been abusing the the Windows 7 Calculator app for DLL side-loading attacks since at least July 11.