ZeroFOX – Network Securitas

July 16, 2017

Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

This post was originally published on this siteLast month KrebsOnSecurity published research into a large distributed network of apparently compromised systems being used to relay huge blasts of junk email promoting “online dating” programs — affiliate-driven schemes traditionally overrun with automated accounts posing as women. New research suggests that another bot-promoting botnet of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been pimping the same dating scheme and ginning up millions of clicks from Twitter users in the process. One of the 80,000+ Twitter bots ZeroFOX found that were enticing male Twitter users into viewing their profile pages. Not long […]

August 19, 2020

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

This post was originally published on this siteThe COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where […]