Cybercriminals Using WHO Alias For Phishing Campaign
Summary
In yet another scam perpetrated by cybercriminals, the guise of being the World Health Organization has popped up again. Malwarebytes has uncovered a phishing scam that is similar to a previously discovered malspam campaign reported by the MalwareHunterTeam.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Threat Intelligence Team and Dave Bales
The original article can be found at:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/collection/Cybercriminals-Using-WHO-Alias-For-Phishing-Campaign-8b845ba8a35732542582e8cdaad3d969
The original article can be found at: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/social-engineering/2020/03/cybercriminals-impersonate-world-health-organization-to-distribute-fake-coronavirus-e-book/
Details
Mal de1b53282ea75d2d3ec517da813e70bb56362ffb27e4862379903c38a346384d
URL drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vljQdfYJV76IqjLYwk74NUvaJpYBamtE
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Do not click or open links in mails directly, instead type in the main URL in your browser or search the brand/company via your preferred search engine.
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Ensure anti-virus software and associated files are up to date.
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Search for existing signs of the indicated IOCs in your environment.
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Block all URL and IP based IOCs at the firewall, IDS, web gateways, routers or other perimeter-based devices, a course of action, resources or applications to remediate this threat.
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Keep applications and operating systems running at the current released patch level.