Fishing Campaigns and AI – Hackers explore Pope Francis’s death with internet -xenarated false information
“Cyber crime criminals grow in confusion and peak of public interest”Alert Rafa Lopez specializes in the security engineer email protection at the Czech Point Software. Quoted in a statement, the expert mentioned this “Curious and emotional reactions make these moments in favor of attackers”“Whenever there is a big impact news, we have seen a sharp growth in the schemes trying to explore the interest of the people.”
According to Rafa Lopez, marked campaigns are designed to attract consumer attention, encouraging more information for more information by clicking on search engines or links embedded in pictures or posts. In these cases, Users can be redirected to fraudulent websites, created to steal data or money through financial schemes.
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“In one of the cases observed, Link on the site that released fake news about Pope Francis ‘disguised’. By clicking, the The user has diverted to the fake Google page, which promotes fraud with offer cardsThe expert explains that it is a common strategy to provide sensitive data or to inspire customers to make payments.
But there are fraudulent sites when performing in background orders with no interaction of the user. This threat can collect data such as machine name, operating system, position, language and more.
“The goal Collect detailed information about users to start high -targeted fishing campaigns or sell this information on Dark Web. This data may include login credentials, financial information or device technical characteristics, ”Rafa Lopez adds.
According to researchers, another one of the risks associated with these campaigns involves one strategy “Search Engine Optimization Poisoning”. By that, the Cyber Crimeans are paid to keep their harmful sites in the first results of search enginesIt is believed that they are cheating customers and accessing reliable information.
This allows “poison” Distribute Malware, steal credentials or make money to produce “kidnapping” session cookies, websites.
“These domains are not visible in fame tools because the problem is getting worse”Rafa Lopez explains. “They may have recently been recorded or inactive for months without any harmful behavior, so that it escapes from identifying by traditional cyber security systems.”
Campaigns are part of a wide trend such as what is recognized by the cyber security company “Digital opportunism”, where attackers are exploring the events of world interest to spread malware or false information.
As described by Security Consulting Director Hendrick De Bruin for the SADC area of Czech Point Software, there are research Repeatedly recognized in fishing and malware campaigns associated with these types of events.
Writing Note: The news has been updated with more information (last update: 12:41)
