Largest Cyber Attack Against Iceland Driven by Fareit-Remcos Combo

guest · Oct 12, 2018

Largest Cyber Attack Against Iceland Driven by Fareit-Remcos Combo
October 12, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...gainst-iceland-driven-by-fareit-remcos-combo/

A brazen phishing campaign took Iceland by surprise the last weekend, sending out malicious emails to thousands of individuals, in an attempt to fool them into installing a new threat that mixes code from different sources.
Attacker uses the homograph trick
To make everything appear authentic, the author of the campaign resorted to the homograph trick to register a domain that looked like the original 'logreglan.is.' [...]
Triple whammy code combo
Speaking to BleepingComputer, Cyren senior threat analyst Magni Sigurdsson says that the threat is a completely new one that bakes in code similar to Fareit info stealer, for keylogging purposes and for slurping passwords.

The link in the phishing messages takes the victim to a website that imitates almost to perfection the official website of the Icelandic police, and asks users to enter their social security number (SSN).
[...] The attacker set up a complex phishing scheme that is difficult to detect by the average user.
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