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Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day:  Quickbooks Phish

Chef’s Special:  IONOS Login Phish

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.

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Quickbooks Phish

We’ll never know what the end game was for this phishing exploit, as the landing page was already taken down by the host just 3 hours and 30 minutes after the email was received.  Presumably so sort of credential theft of an Intuit account.

The link on the email resolved to https://s.id/DXPyx which displayed this 403 error page

IONOS Login Phish

Here’s a credential stealer we’ve seen before.  The sender’s email address is our first clue this is a phish.

The Click Here To Keep The Same Password link resolves to https://jwtbuk304.s3.jp-tok.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/craniotopography/index.html#bob@wyzco.com

Copyright scammers turn to phone numbers instead of web links

Forewarned is forearmed. Here’s our advice on dealing with “copyright infringement” scammers.  Read more…

Spear Phishing Becomes A Bigger Problem As The Average Org Is Targeted 700 Times A Year

With threat actors honing their trickery skills to craft the perfect email used to fool a would-be victim recipient, new data shows cybercriminals are stepping up their game on a number of fronts.

Spear phishing only works when the misleading email content is relevant to the recipient. It’s one of the reasons social engineering plays such a critical role in today’s email-based attacks. According to security vendor Barracuda’s latest report, Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends, organizations are experiencing far more convincing and impactful campaigns that are focused on a wider range of roles in the organization than ever before:

• 1 in 10 attacks are Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks
• 77% of BEC attacks target employees outside of finance and executive roles
• Even so, the average CEO receives 57 targeted phishing attacks each year
• IT staff still receive an average of 40 per year
• Microsoft remains the top impersonated brand with WeTransfer in at number two

According to Barracuda, the roles targeted within an organization extend well-beyond that of the CEO or IT, making every employee a potential target. There is an interesting graph that shows the different employee groups and the attacks per mailbox at the KnowBe4 blog:
https://blog.knowbe4.com/spear-phishing-becomes-a-bigger-problem-as-the-average-organization-is-targeted-700-times-a-year