Avanan Blog Attack Briefs (8)


Winner Pays: Lotto Scam Reaches End-Users

We all dream of the day that the lotto card finally breaks our way and we can make our way to financial glory.

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Flex On 'Em: Leveraging Legitimate Sites to Launch Attacks

Many email security vendors are now heavily relying on sender domain reputation as an indicator of phishing. Avanan's research has found that 43.35% of all phishing ...

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Decode This: Another Obfuscated File Getting Past Scanners

A email comes that says it has remittance advice. 

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Please Confirm: Payment Notice Gone Awry

Payment confirmations are essential in business. You need to know a payment has been processed. 

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Reverse Jinx: Scammers Ask Why They Paid Victim in Credential Harvesting Scheme

An interestingly-worded campaign has bypassed ATP scanners and made it into inboxes.

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(Don't) Take it to the Bank: Direct Deposit Scam Hitting Inboxes

Direct deposit is a great convenience for businesses and individuals. 

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CAPTCHA This: Bypassing SEGs via reCAPTCHA

Traditional SEGs scan emails through filters that check URLs in emails against various static lists to determine how to treat each URL. Based on the decisions made b...

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PDF-Based Attack Gets Past Email Scanners

PDFs are not always what they seem. They are good vectors to launch attacks, because PDFs are usually important, meaning end-users are likely to click. One estimate ...

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Spoofing Excel to Get Credentials

A static HTML file isn't always what it seems.

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PhishGun: How Phishing Attacks From Services Like Mailgun Bypass Microsoft 365 Security

Avanan researchers have identified a new attack form whereby adversaries leverage reputable Email Delivery Services (EDS) to launch and obfuscate their attacks again...

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A Microsoft Swing and a Google Miss: Spoofed Pages Get to the Inbox

Credential harvesting is one of the most popular attack forms out there. It's simple. Get a user to click on a link. At the link, get them to enter their information...

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Lucky Penny: Missing ATM Card Attack Bypasses Scanners

Believe it or not, the classic Nigerian Prince scam is still around and still kicking. In 2018, Americans lost over $700,000 to the scam. Yikes.

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Hidden Meaning: Using Obfuscation to Fool Natural Language Processing

A rapidly increasing attack campaign is hitting inboxes.

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We Shouldn't Transfer: Getting End-Users to Give Over Credentials

You may have heard about the recent Accellion breach. Accellion, a file-sharing app, was breached and now tons of universities and corporations have been hit. Major ...

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When a Legitimate Pension Fund Uses Fraudulent Phishing Tactics

Avanan researchers have discovered an interesting “marketing” campaign from a legitimate company that leverages pension fund fraud tactics normally used in phishing ...

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Can I Have Some More? Blatant Financial Scam Makes Way to Inboxes

Avanan researchers have uncovered a widespread financial scam attack. The attack aims to get sensitive bank and financial information from the victim.

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ZeroFont Phishing: Three Years Later, the Attack Form is Still Out There

Back in 2018, Avanan uncovered an attack we called ZeroFont phishing. The idea is that hackers insert hidden words into the text with a font size of zero. The recipi...

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Flipping Out: Hackers Hijack Legitimate File Service to Reach Inboxes

Avanan researchers have uncovered a specific attack that was seen 282 times across 18 different environments in the past two weeks. This attack leverages Flipsnack, ...

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Bad Check: Another Malicious Invoice Gets Through

Another day, another invoice scam. This time the fake invoice is actually a malicious HTML file. Despite this being a very basic credentials harvesting attack  it wa...

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Invoiced: When an Ask For Payment Is an Invitation for Malware

Invoice-related spam is common. It doesn't mean, though, that everyone stops it. 

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