Another group is impersonating USPS, tax entities around the globe in order to steal money
A new scheme has seen a nefarious actor impersonating the United States Postal Service and tax entities in recent weeks in an effort to get victims in the U.S., Italy, and Germany to download and install malware, according to new research from Proofpoint. The scheme has been trying to trick victims into clicking through spearphishing emails that contain ransomware — and at times banking trojans — by sending alerts that appear to require urgent action related to tax information. Of course, what’s really taking place is a money-making ploy, according to Proofpoint researchers. The scheme — it’s unclear whether it’s being carried out by one person or a group — also works to trick victims by appearing to imitate government taxation entities or the USPS by using lookalike domains and branding. In one case last month, German-based accounts were targeted with hundreds of spearphishing emails that looked to be from […]
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