How scammers use "scraped New York Times content" to trick security scanners — and exploit…
- More than 12,000 servers supported a coordinated phishing infrastructure worldwide
- Google Cloud links helped phishing emails appear safer than reality
- Fake New York Times pages acted as decoys for scanners
When a suspicious email lands in your inbox promising financial rewards or urgent payment requests, the infrastructure behind that email is rarely what it appears to be.
An investigation by Comparitech revealed a coordinated spam and phishing network spanning 12,704 servers in 55 countries.
These phishing emails are tied to fake financial rewards and similar scams, using tactics designed to evade security tools such as antivirus and ransomware protection systems that many users depend on.
Trusted Google links help the campaign evade detection
The campaign begins with unsolicited emails promoting financial rewards, health products, gambling offers, or urgent payment requests through embedded links.
Rather than directing recipients immediately to attacker-controlled websites, the links first route through GoogleCloud Storage pages...
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