Phishing Attack Activities: Threat Actors in Sheep’s Clothing (ENG)
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Phishing Attack Activities: Threat Actors in Sheep’s Clothing (ENG)
Introduction
The idiom “beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing” is often used as a metaphorical representation of something that appears to be trustworthy on the outside but is hiding the truth and disguised in another form to deceive others.
Phishing attacks are one of the attack techniques used by Threat Actors to steal information from individuals and organizations through tricking them. Just like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, specific channels such as emails or messengers are used to impersonate credible entities to steal sensitive information from the targets, such as account credentials. Reports by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an international collaboration to mitigate and provide information on phishing attacks, claims that more than 1 million phishing attacks were carried out in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of over 67% in comparison to 2021.
[Figure 1: Phishing attacks from April 2021 to March 2022 …
Introduction
The idiom “beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing” is often used as a metaphorical representation of something that appears to be trustworthy on the outside but is hiding the truth and disguised in another form to deceive others.
Phishing attacks are one of the attack techniques used by Threat Actors to steal information from individuals and organizations through tricking them. Just like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, specific channels such as emails or messengers are used to impersonate credible entities to steal sensitive information from the targets, such as account credentials. Reports by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an international collaboration to mitigate and provide information on phishing attacks, claims that more than 1 million phishing attacks were carried out in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of over 67% in comparison to 2021.
[Figure 1: Phishing attacks from April 2021 to March 2022 …
IoC
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http://googlmeil.com
http://hanacard.navceo.website
http://kakao.cloudfiles.epizy.com
http://naver-sec.site
http://naver.cloudfiles.epizy.com
http://navocorp.link
http://nid.daurn.in.net
http://snu.cloudfiles.epizy.com
http://Kakaocop.com
http://Kisa.42web.io
http://accounts.qocple.epizy.com
http://cood.nonghyup.website
http://dankook.onedviver.epizy.com
http://daum-privacy.com
http://daurn.in.net
http://googlmeil.com
http://hanacard.navceo.website
http://kakao.cloudfiles.epizy.com
http://naver-sec.site
http://naver.cloudfiles.epizy.com
http://navocorp.link
http://nid.daurn.in.net
http://snu.cloudfiles.epizy.com