Fake Indian Income Tax Calculator Delivers xRAT Variant

A FortiGuard Labs Breaking Threat Report Tax-themed phishing and malware attacks rise during the tax filing season. FortiGuard Labs recently came upon an interesting Excel file claiming to provide an income tax calculator that purports to be from India’s Income Tax Department. It’s not. Instead, it’s a malicious file containing Continue Reading

Potential Ichitaro Phishing Vulnerability

The FortiGuard Labs team continually tracks phishing and spam campaigns around the world. Sending users macro-enabled documents with a malicious payload is one of the most commonly used malware attack vectors for phishing campaigns. This attack vector has been used by used by such prevalent malware families as Dridex, Fareit, Continue Reading

Don’t Get Hit by the Whaler’s Harpoon

What is Whaling? Chances are you’re familiar with the term Phishing, where scammers use social engineering tactics to get users to give up personal information such as financial data, Social Security numbers, or other highly confidential and valuable information. That email you received from the “IRS” asking for your Social Continue Reading

Did you order those iTunes movies? Nope, it’s just phishing for Canadian Apple users

Over the weekend, we encountered an interesting variation of a phishing email targeting Apple users. The email contained an alleged receipt for five movies purchased from the iTunes Store that was so detailed that the user who received it, and who knows better, still almost fell for the scam. Figure Continue Reading

Watch Out For Fake Online Gaming Sites And Their Malicious Executables

Every year during holiday seasons, the number of phishing websites increases. This is particularly true for online gaming distribution platforms. In some cases, users not only have their login credentials stolen, but they also end up downloading and executing malicious executables. As expected, the more popular a platform is, the Continue Reading