Phishing Malware: How and Where

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Phishing Additional Malware to the Arsenal of
Tactics
A group of phishing criminals called Silver
Terrier originating from Nigeria was known to
change its tactics to improve its success rate on
getting more victims. The group is not known to
conduct sophisticated phishing attacks, and they
still heavily rely on email phishing campaigns.
However the group seemed to be dedicated to do
more and succeed more, therefore they added
off-the-shelf malware on top of their already
modus mass phishing campaign in their tactics.
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Phishing Malware How and Where?
Apparently the group has access to various
malware types such as Remote Access Trojans and
information sniffers which were distributed
aiming to infect victims and stealing data. The
group has launched off an average of 17600 spam
emails per month while using 15 different
families of malware according to the researchers
at Palo Alto Networks who has been keen on
tracking them. The groups activities were
interpreted to have increased by 45 percent from
2016.
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Phishing Malware
Lets admit that it is cheap and easy to send
malicious emails, but the real effort lies on how
attentive the malware authors are when it comes
to materializing their attacks.
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Phishing Malware How and Where?
The tools and tactics utilized by SilverTerrier
are not the best of technology or methods but
what makes them successful is their opportunistic
mindset and methods. Vulnerable victims are
those businesses that do not employ anti-phishing
methods nor even has phishing intelligence to
begin with.
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Phishing Malware How and Where?
Common contents in the phishing emails that are
distributed focuses on the subject of fake
shipping notifications, invoices, requests for
quotes and purchase orders. One thing that is
surely surprising is the origin of the malware in
the groups inventory came from the Dark Web
where malware can easily be sold and purchased
through Darkweb Marketplaces. Off-The-Shelf
Malware is like a generic disease which can
easily be detected by software security programs,
with the success of the group SilverTerrier, then
the awareness of the victims can be attributed to
it.
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