Research into a global phishing-as-a-service operation will take you through:
Hundreds of thousands of victims spanning the globe
A glimpse into the lifestyle of the operators
Technical insight into the phishing toolkit
The backend of a phishing threat actor operating at scale
The scam industry has seen explosive growth over the past several years. The types of scams and methods used are constantly evolving as scammers adapt their techniques to continue their activities. They often capitalise on new technologies and target areas where our societies have yet to build mechanisms to protect themselves.
This story begins in December 2023 when people all over the world – including a large portion of the Norwegian population - started to receive text messages about packages waiting for them at the post office. The messages would come in the form of an SMS, iMessage or RCS message. What we were witnessing was the rise of a scam technique known as smishing or SMS phishing.
Such messages have one thing in common: they impersonate a brand that we trust to create a credible context for soliciting some kind of personal information, thus tricking us into willfully giving away our information.
Some scams are easier to spot than others. Spelling errors, poor translations, strange numbers or links to sketchy domains often give them away. But even tell-tale signs can be easy to miss on a busy day. When a large number of people are targeted, some will be expecting a package. And the tactic is obviously working. If it wasn’t worth their while, the scammers wouldn’t have invested so much time, money and effort.
Between Sunday 14 April and Wednesday 17 April a total of 70 addresses were searched across the world, resulting in the arrest of 37 suspects. This includes the arrest of 4 individuals in the United Kingdom linked to the running of the site, including the original developer of the service.The LabHost platform, previously available on the open web, has been...
A sudden disruption of a major phishing-as-a-service provider leads to the rise of another…that looks very familiar
Discover Mamba 2FA, a previously unknown adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit and sold as phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS).
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service, along with fellow UK and international law enforcement, as well as several trusted private industry partners, conducted an operation that succeeded in taking down the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) provider LabHost. This move was also timed to coincide with a number of key arrests related to this operation. In this entry, we will briefly explain what LabHost was, how it affected its victims, and the impact of this law enforcement operation — including the assistance provided by Trend Micro.
Chinese-language Phishing-as-a-Service platform ‘darcula’ targets organizations in 100+ countries with sophisticated techniques using more than 20,000 phish ...
A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
Bad actors are using a shared Phishing-as-a-Service platform called “Caffeine”.
Following the recent Twilio hack leading to the leakage of 2FA (OTP) codes, cybercriminals continue to upgrade their attack arsenal to orchestrate advanced phishing campaigns targeting users worldwide. Resecurity has recently identified a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised in the Dark Web. On some sources the alternative name is Moloch, which has some connection to a phishing-kit developed by several notable underground actors who targeted the financial institutions and e-commerce sector before.
