There has been a terrible series of earthquakes in Syria and Turkey – so expect the amount of scam traffic email, texts and websites to leap up in the coming days as the scammers take advantage of people’s suffering and other’s compassion. This article by Johannes Ullrich has some very …
More on the Red Cross phishing scam
Following on from this story: Red Cross spam phishing emails doing the rounds – Smart Thinking Solutions Johannes Ullrich, form the SANS Internet Storm Diary, has more details about the payment methods offered: No Bitcoin – No Problem: Follow Up to Last Weeks Donation Scam – SANS Internet Storm Centre
Red Cross spam phishing emails doing the rounds
SANS is reporting an scam in the wild of phishing emails, supposedly from the Red Cross, asking for donations for Ukrainian. Scam E-Mail Impersonating Red Cross – SANS Internet Storm Centre The author, Johannes, has some advice if you are a legitimate charity: “If you are soliciting funds for charitable …
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Follow-up on the Red Cross hack
The Red Cross has tracked the cause of their hack to a vulnerability in the Zoho software they were using (CVE-2021-40539). Having bypassed the authentication processes, the attackers had administrator access to the system and compromised the online system that the Red Cross use to reconnect families separated in crisis …
