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Don't Close: Scamming Closing Notifications with Credential Harvesting

Written by Jeremy Fuchs | June 23, 2021

Avanan researchers have uncovered an attack that leverages the notification of closing documents to send a credential harvesting link.

Here's the email:

 

Notice that "Open Message" will direct you to a suspicious-looking website. Here's where it leads you:

 

That is a convincing login page, but it's actually hosted on a malicious page.

 

This is not the first time we've written about scammers taking advantage of mortgage closing and wire information. Back in November, we wrote about a fairly similar attack