Sunday, October 18, 2026

Phishing

SNOW Malware Ecosystem Uses Teams Phishing, WebSocket Tunnels, and Browser Extensions

Threat actors are increasingly chaining classic phishing with collaboration platforms and covert tunneling to create highly believable intrusion paths. A recent multi-stage campaign attributed...

Indian Income Tax Department Phishing Lure Deploys Gh0st RAT and AsyncRAT Implants

A targeted phishing campaign impersonating the Indian Income Tax Department has been observed delivering a sophisticated, six-stage infection chain that culminates in two in-memory...

Attackers Exfiltrate AnyDesk Configuration Data via Blat SMTP in Aerospace Phishing Campaign

A targeted spear-phishing campaign that configures AnyDesk for silent, persistent remote access and exfiltrates its configuration using the Blat SMTP utility. The campaign uses...

Fake Interview Phishing Campaign Impersonates Top Brands to Steal Gmail Credentials

A sophisticated interview-themed phishing campaign that impersonates major global brands to harvest Gmail credentials. Attackers pose as recruiters offering marketing roles at well-known companies,...

FIFA World Cup Phishing Scam Uses Fake Reward Pages to Steal Credit Card Data

A sophisticated email phishing campaign exploiting the global excitement around the 2026 FIFA World Cup is deceiving fans with counterfeit reward pages designed to...

Phishing Campaign Uses Fake Invoice PDF to Drop AsyncRAT, VenomRAT, and XWorm

A sophisticated phishing campaign that uses a fake invoice PDF to mask the delivery of multiple remote access trojans primarily AsyncRAT, but also VenomRAT...

RedLine Infostealer Thread Reveals Hidden Maritime Phishing and BEC Infrastructure

A routine threat-feed alert for a RedLine Stealer command-and-control (C2) IP morphed into a full-scale pivot investigation that exposed a tailored maritime spear‑phishing and...

Attackers Register AI-Hallucinated Domains to Deliver Phishing Kits and Malware

An emergent supply-chain attack vector they term "phantom squatting," in which large language models (LLMs) routinely hallucinate plausible but nonexistent domains for legitimate brands...