Thirty-four Russian gangs compromised more than 50 million passwords from sites including Steam and Roblox, as well as payment information and credentials from Amazon and PayPal. The criminals primarily used Redline (23 groups) and Racoon (8 groups) information-stealer software in a stealer-as-a-service attack to obtain information from users on these platforms.
Europol took down iSpoof, a site that provided fraudsters technology to impersonate banks and government employees. In a joint operation, intelligence and law-enforcement authorities in the UK, Europe, Australia, America, Canada, and Ukraine arrested 142 suspects. The fraudsters took $120 million from their victims in international cybercrime activities.
Would you open your front door if you knew that the person knocking wanted to rob you? So why would you open that spear-phishing email?
The word “spoof” originally meant something lighthearted. But new, more dangerous spoofing attacks on the Internet are something to take seriously.
