“Internet criminals flourish in chaos and the peak of public interest.”RAFA Lopez, Security Engineer in the Check Point program specializing in e -mail protection. I quoted in a statement, the expert provides for this “Curiosity and emotional reactions make these moments lead to the attackers.”Adding that “the more news occurred, we have seen a sharp increase in the plans that seek to explore the interest of the audience.”
According to Rafa Lopez, the specific campaigns are designed to attract the attention of users, or encourage them to search for more information through search engines or click on the links in pictures or posts. In these cases, Users can be redirected to fraudulent websites, or creation to steal data or money through financial plans.
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In one of the observed cases, The link was “disguised” on the website of issued fake news about Pope Francis. By clicking The user was redirected to the fake Google page, which has strengthened fraud with the show cardsThe expert explains:
But there are fraudulent sites that go further when performing in the background orders without any interaction between the user. This threat type is able to collect data such as the name of the device, the operating system, the location, the language and more.
“The goal is Collecting detailed information about users to start very targeted hunting campaigns or selling this information on the dark web. This data may include entry login or financial information or technical specifications.
According to researchers, the latest risk associated with these campaigns involves a tactic called “Search engine poisoning”. Through this, and Internet criminals are pushing to place their harmful sites between the first results of the search enginesCuting users and leading them to believe that they reach reliable information.
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“The problem gets worse because many of these areas do not appear in the threat reputation tools.”Rafa Lopez explains. “It may be recently registered or inactive for several months without any harmful behavior, thus escaping from the disclosure of traditional cyber security systems.”
Campaign such as those discovered by the Cyber Security Company are part of the broader trend known as the name “Digital opportunism”, where attackers explore events of global importance to spread harmful programs or wrong information.
It is also explained It was repeatedly identified in the hunting campaigns and harmful programs related to this type of events.
Writing Note: The news has been updated with more information (last update: 12:41)
