Fraudsters Developed New ‘Phishing’ Methods

Phishing or otherwise known as a ‘phishing tactic’, where scammers randomly send people through known websites, banks, credit card companies, e-mails, or e-mails that appear to be from internet service providers. data theft It is a very dangerous method that is widely used to make

More recently, scammers are against measures that prevent buyers from opening phishing messages. new techniques seems to have improved. Here is one of these techniques; It was recently discovered by a cybersecurity firm, Cofense. Accordingly, messages used in a campaign are intended to defraud users of Germany-based financial institutions Sparkasse and Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken and to steal digital banking information. QR codes turned out to be used.

QR code phishing messages often go undetected by anti-fraud measures

Carefully prepared and well-structured phishing messages; often to deceive buyers by asking them to approve data policy changes or review new security procedures implemented by the bank many different tricks like covers. Recipients who click on the link normally found in the phishing message are then redirected to the phishing landing page via Google’s feed proxy service “FeedBurner”; but this time things slightly different looks like.

Accordingly, in recent attacks, scammers used e-mail filters to maliciously send messages to recipients instead of linking them. making it difficult to mark It started sending QR codes. In his latest analysis, Cofense said, “Phishing sites are pretty similar. Users are first asked for their bank’s location or BLZ bank code, followed by the corresponding username and PIN. Once this information is provided, a download page asks the user to wait for verification before displaying the login page once again, this time the credentials warns that it’s wrong, it’s a common phishing tactic.” made statements.