Pharmaceutical scammers are currently spamvertising a YouTube themed email campaign, attempting to socially engineer users into clicking on the links found in the legitimately looking emails.
Upon clicking on the fake YouTube personal message notification, users are redirected to a website reselling popular counterfeit drugs. The cybercriminals behind the campaign then earn revenue through an affiliate network.
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Online scammers often promise you the moon in exchange for virtually nothing besides a modest financial investment. They are largely successful due to the high number of socially engineered customers. However, sometimes they tend to play by the rules in order to avoid legal responsibility for the business failure of those who purchased the “too good to be true” product.
In this post, I’ll profile a currently circulating “Work At Home” scam that’s successfully and professionally impersonating CNBC in an attempt to add more legitimacy to its market proposition – the Home Business System.
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Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing hundreds of thousands of emails impersonating Citi, using two different professionally looking email templates. Upon clicking on any of the links found in the malicious emails, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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Cybercriminals have recently launched a privacy-violating campaign spreading across Facebook in an attempt to trick Facebook’s users into installing a rogue Chrome extension. Once installed, it will have access to all the data on all web sites, as well as access to your tabs and browsing history.
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With the ever-decreasing entry barriers into the shady world of cybercrime, potential cybercriminals themselves may sometimes become the victims.
A recently intercepted fraudulent email sheds more light into the process of how cybercriminals attempt to scam novice cybercriminals, and also puts the spotlight on the QA (Quality Assurance) practices within the cybercrime ecosystem, each and every time a transaction or a transfer of fraudulently obtained assets is about to occur.
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Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing tens of thousands of emails, impersonating Chase in an attempt to trick its customers into executing the malicious attachment found in the fake email. Upon execution, the sample downloads additional malware on the affected hosts, and opens a backdoor allowing the cybercriminals behind the campaign complete access to the host.
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Cybercriminals are currently attempting to trick hundreds of thousands of users into clicking on the malicious links found in the currently spamvertised bogus ‘Sendspace File Delivery Notifications‘.
Upon clicking on any of the links found in the email, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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In the midst of the holidays season, cybercriminals are currently spamvertising tens of thousands of malicious “Flight Reservation Confirmations“, in an attempt to trick users into clicking on the link found in the fake emails. Once they click on the link, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the latest version of the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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Seeking financial liquidity for their fraudulently obtained assets, novice cybercriminals continue launching new DIY cybercrime-friendly e-shops offering access to compromised accounts, harvested email databases, and accounts that have been purchased using stolen credit card data, in an attempt to diversify their portfolio and, consequently, increase the probability of a successful purchase from their shops.
In this post, I’ll profile one of the most recently launched cybercrime-friendly e-shops, continuing the “A peek inside a boutique cybercrime-friendly E-shop” series.
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Cybercriminals have recently launched yet another massive spam campaign attempting to trick e-banking users into thinking that their ability to process ACH transactions has been temporarily disabled. Upon clicking on the link found in the malicious email, users are exposed to the client-side exploits served by the Black Hole Exploit Kit.
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When you’re a threat researcher, you are always on the look out for anything that looks ‘phishy’, even if it’s on your own personal time. Today, I opened my personal email to find this:
Although the email looked very convincing, I don’t bank with Smile Bank so I knew something was up. Smile Bank is an actual bank based in the UK. The bad guys used a spoofed email address to make it look like it came from the legit Smile Bank domain smile.co.uk. If someone did bank with Smile Bank, I can see how they could easily be tricked. It’s the “Click here to proceed” link that gives the bad guys away. The link goes to a page hosted by pier3.hk, which is a legitimate domain, but appears to be compromised with a simple HTM page that is a redirect to the real malicious site. The redirect sends you here:
Once filled in and submitted, it then sends you here:
When this page is filled in and submitted, it sends you to the legitimate Smile Bank site:
In the background, I captured the network traffic to discovery all the input I entered being sent in plain text to the malicious URL:
In comparison, I went to Smile Bank’s real login screen. It was identical except for the fact it didn’t accept my nonsense for inputs:
This trick could easily be done with any large bank. Make sure to always be suspicious of any email claiming to be from your bank that threatens your account has been locked and insists that you need to enter your account information. Also, if the link to enter your account information isn’t to the URL of the bank it claims to be from, you know it’s malicious.
Facebook users, watch what you click on!
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing bogus “Facebook Account Cancellation Requests“, in an attempt to trick Facebook’s users into clicking on the malicious link found in the email. Upon clicking on the link, users are exposed to client-side exploits which ultimately drop malware on the affected host.
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