Tag Archives: phishing

Real-Time Phishing Kit Targets Brazilian Central Bank

We recently found an interesting phishing kit on a compromised website that has QR code capabilities, along with the ability to control the phishing page in real time. What our investigation revealed was that attackers were leveraging PIX, a new payment method created by the Brazilian Central Bank. Features & Context for PIX PIX was […]

CSS-JS Steganography in Fake Flash Player Update Malware

This summer, MalwareBytes researcher Jérôme Segura wrote an article about how criminals use image files (.ico) to hide JavaScript credit card stealers on compromised e-commerce sites. In a tweet, Affable Kraut also reported another similar obfuscation technique using .ico files to conceal JavaScript skimmers. Just something I’ve noticed more recently with digital skimmers/#magecart. Obfuscated code […]

Magento Phishing Leverages JavaScript For Exfiltration

During a recent investigation, a Magento admin login phishing page was found on a compromised website using the file name wp-order.php. This is an odd file name choice for a Magento phishing page, but nevertheless it successfully loads a legitimate looking Magento 1.x login page. What is not immediately visible or apparent to victims, however, […]

GFX Xsender Hack Tool: A Spam Mailer

PHP hack tools are created and used by attackers to help automate frequent or tedious tasks. During a recent investigation, we came across a hack tool used to simplify the process of sending predefined HTML emails to a list of email addresses. The tool runs on top of PHPMailer’s library, which handles the connection and […]

Missing DMARC Records Lead to Phishing

Email will continue to be the dominant mode of digital communication for the foreseeable future. However, the email framework was not designed with security in mind. There still are security flaws that bad actors regularly exploit to their advantage. Recently, researchers have discovered a business-email compromise scam in Russia. Known as Cosmic Lync, the cybercriminal […]

Spox Phishing Kit Harvests Chase Bank Credentials

Phishing kits are the back end components to a phishing attack and are often designed to make it easier to deploy a phishing page. These kits are typically bundled in compressed files, such as .zip archives, and contain the entire file infrastructure needed to operate a phishing page. Once a kit is uploaded to a […]

Meet the Victims of Online Scams

Imagine a lonely person who’s looking for romantic companionship, so they turn to the internet. Picture someone who’s terribly anxious for news about an online payment that will ease their paycheck-to-paycheck existence. Or perhaps you’ve known an individual with such limited technical skills and financial resources, they’re always browsing for the cheapest IT provider possible. […]

Steam Phishing Campaign Uses CS:GO Skin Gambling Lure

Attackers regularly target online gaming accounts as they can quickly sell any transferable items along with account logins to a third party. This scenario has cropped up for years now, and has affected a growing number of popular online games ranging from Runescape to Fortnite. These games run on their own clients — so stealing […]