Cyber-criminals are using a botnet to send phishing emails with the apparent purpose to test a new email attachment type. Over the course of three weeks starting August 10th, this cyber-gang released seven different types of phishing emails to over 3,000 banks around the world. They appear to be testing which of these several approaches is most successful at tricking recipients into opening the email attachment.
The attachment itself is also something different – Microsoft Excel Web Query files that use ...
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