lundi 18 juin 2018

Fans targeted by phishing campaign as World Cup gets underway

As the FIFA World Cup tournament enters its second week, cybercriminals are using a phishing campaign to trick fans into opening an infected attachment. Emails identified by Check Point attempt to lure would-be victims into downloading a schedule of fixtures and a result tracker, but doing so will prove to be an own goal. When opened, the attachment uses a malware variant called 'DownloaderGuide,' a known downloader of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that is most commonly used as an installer for applications like toolbars, adware or system optimizers. Check Point researchers have found that in total the campaign includes nine… [Continue Reading]


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