The campaign was discovered by a team of cyber security researchers in Anomali. The campaign has been stealing ids and passwords in the United States, Canada, China, Australia, Sweden and more.
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Phishing Campaign Stealing Passwords from Governments Around the World
Phishing Campaign Stealing Passwords from Governments Around the World |
All attacks include emails claiming to be government targets and all of them trying to trick victims into clicking on an email link asking their username and password. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book that still has victims.
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Saya Moore says, "It is possible that your opponents are trying to get bidders to end the competition or confuse government suppliers with long-term gain"
It is unclear what kind of group is behind the spoofed websites and related phishing campaigns, the domains are being hosted in Turkey and Romania. But, although it is unclear who could be behind the attack because the attackers could set up fraudulent sites from any county in the world and could use any country to host the domains.
Following the discovery of the group, the CERT has been notified with warnings issued to governments that teach employees basic cyber security activities.
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