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Phishing Victims From a CDN's Point of View
Overview Being a Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform, sometimes you can see fractions of attacks on the wire. In this blog, we will focus on phishing websites that, while not being delivered by the Akamai platform, are referring to or redirecting victims to pages that are on Akamai's platform.
Access and Threat Insights: Thanksgiving
Overview Thanksgiving in the United States is considered by many to mark a good time of year to gain insight into enterprise access and threats. From an enterprise point of view, Thanksgiving is when many American users will be on vacation, but may still working from home, in some capacity. It's interesting to see users' access patterns as they pertain to enterprise applications, such as email or other SaaS platforms,
Out of Season IRS Phishing Campaigns
Over the past two months, Akamai's threat research team has been closely monitoring a phishing campaign that impersonates the official Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website, and is requesting sensitive information, email addresses, and passwords.
Summer Phishing Scams Targeting Vacation Hotspots
As phishing websites become more advanced, by using rich functionality and customized workflows, evidence indicates that web analytics plugins are being commonly used in phishing kits. This enables threat actors to have stronger visibility into victim profiles and their behavior once they have landed on the scam website. This, in turn, can lead to future optimizations of the phishing kit and scam's distribution.
Analytics - Tracking a Phishing Campaign
Earlier this year, Akamai discovered a publicly available plug-in that is being used to collect analytics and various stats on a number of phishing campaigns. Using our own data, we were able to correlate the analytics and view the IP addresses of the victims, since the phishing campaigns were directing victims to one of our customers.
Catch Me If You Can: Evasive and Defensive Technique ...
Phishing is a multifaceted type of attack, aimed at collecting usernames and passwords, personal information, or sometimes both. Yet, these attacks only work so long as the phishing kit itself remains hidden. Phishing is a numbers game and time is a factor. The longer a phishing kit can remain active and undetected, the longer the scam can run. The longer the scam runs, the number of victims only increases.
Phishing Factories and Economies
Every day Akamai sees thousands of new phishing pages. Over the last few months one kit, and the pattern it represents, has stood out to our researchers. In today's post, we're going to explore this kit, how it came to be, and what its existence means to the public. Since December, Akamai has tracked the development and deployment of different phishing kits. Some of them are using an almost factory-like
Disturbingly Easy Phishing Attack Development
While speaking to a colleague of mine regarding recent work on Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) Research Team, related to phishing detection and mitigation, we discussed a recent phishing campaign targeting Microsoft users that leveraged free HTML hosting services and how easy it has become to build and deliver phishing website.
Quiz Phishing: One Scam, 78 Variations
Overview Over the past year, Akamai Enterprise Threat Research team monitored the usage of one particular phishing toolkit in the wild. We previously wrote about this phishing toolkit as "Three Questions Quiz". The "Quiz" toolkit is not new to the threat landscape, as its been used in many phishing campaigns in recent years. Our goal here is to present new insights on the evolution and scale of usage of the