Check Point Email Security Blog Attack Briefs (10)


Hackers Dangling Fake Job Offers to Students

It can be tough being a student. Between the cost of tuition, room and board, and just daily life, it gets expensive very quickly.

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The Blank Image Attack

A few years ago, we wrote about the MetaMorph attack. In this attack, the malicious HTML attachments use meta refresh to redirect the end-user from an HTML attachmen...

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Continuing to Use Microsoft Voice to Send Phishing Links

A few months ago, we wrote about how hackers are utilizing Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Customer Voice platform to send phishing links. In general, the attack works by s...

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Facebook Termination Notices Leads to Phishing

Last year, we wrote about a number of different Facebook-inspired attacks. See here and here for examples.

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Phishmas: USPS Off-Track

Tracking numbers are the lifeblood of holiday shipping emails. Most emails you'll get from delivery services are tracking numbers. And if you're like some people, in...

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Phishmas: The Failed Delivery

There are few things more frustrating than getting a notification that a package couldn't be delivered. It requires far too much work to get it back on track. But wh...

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Phishmas: Is Your Address Correct?

We've all gotten some variant of this email before, even legitimate ones. A package can't be delivered. Maybe they couldn't get access to a building; maybe the addre...

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Phishmas: Delivering Malware

By now, you've got a sense of the type of Phishmas emails you may expect this holiday season. Shipping errors. Delivery fails. Tracking number mishaps. It's a verita...

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Phishmas: The FedEx Sender Spoof

This Phishmas, be sure you know how to spot all the signs of a bad email.

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Phishmas: The Direct Deposit Grinch

In our Phishmas series, we've written a lot about Direct Deposit scams. These are common scams, and we've seen more of them over the course of the holidays. We belie...

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