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An ongoing large-scale phishing campaign is targeting customers of Citibank, requesting recipients to disclose sensitive personal details to lift alleged account holds. The campaign uses emails that feature CitiBank logos, sender addresses that look genuine at first glance, and content that is free of typos.
One of the biggest obstacles to successful phishing attacks is bypassing multi-factor authentication configured on the targeted victim's email accounts. D0x set up a phishing attack using the Evilginx2 attack framework that acts as a reverse proxy to steal credentials and MFA codes.
The Ukrainian cyberpolice have arrested a group of phishing actors who managed to steal payment card data from at least 70,000 people after luring them to fake mobile service top up sites. According to the announcement from law enforcement, the actors used the stolen information to empty their victims' bank accounts.
Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens belonging to 17 members of the OpenSea NFT marketplace. On Saturday, a small number of OpenSea users noticed their NFTs were missing.
The non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea is investigating a phishing attack that left 17 of its users without more than 250 NFTs worth around $2 million. Phishing actors are always looking for ways to take advantage of changes that require users to take action and the OpenSea NFT theft is no different.
Users of Monzo, one of the UK's most popular digital-only banking platforms, are being targeted by phishing messages supported by a growing network of malicious websites. Monzo is a 100% online banking platform with over four million customers and among the first to challenge the traditional financial managing system.
Microsoft has warned of emerging threats in the Web3 landscape, including "Ice phishing" campaigns, as a surge in adoption of blockchain and DeFi technologies emphasizes the need to build security into the decentralized web while it's still in its early stages. The company's Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team called out various new avenues through which malicious actors may attempt to trick cryptocurrency users into giving up their private cryptographic keys and carry out unauthorized fund transfers.
Microsoft has some advice on how to defend against "Ice phishing" and other novel attacks that aim to empty cryptocurrency wallets, for those not already abstaining. Ice phishing, as Microsoft describes it, is a clickjacking, or a user interface redress attack, that "[tricks] a user into signing a transaction that delegates approval of the user's tokens to the attacker.
Just since Feb. 1, analysts have watched phishing email attacks impersonating LinkedIn surge 232 percent, attempting to trick job seekers into giving up their credentials. The phishing emails themselves were convincing dupes, built in HTML templates with the LinkedIn logo, colors and icons, the report added.
Meta has filed a joint lawsuit with Chime, a financial technology and digital banking company, against two Nigerian individuals who allegedly used Instagram and Facebook accounts to impersonate Chime and target its users in phishing attacks. The two defendants, Arafat Eniola Arowokoko and Arowokoko Afeez Opeyemi, presumably used a network of at least five Facebook accounts and over 800 Instagram accounts to impersonate the fintech company, attempting to take over customers' accounts.