The NJCCIC observed a recent uptick in threat actors targeting New Jersey critical infrastructure and public sector organizations, including local municipalities, school districts, and police departments. Threat actors send phishing emails with links intended to capture account credentials and compromise accounts, and then send additional phishing emails from legitimate accounts to avoid suspicion and keep [...]
The NJCCIC has observed a phishing campaign claiming recipients have been selected to enter a giveaway for a prize tied to the FIFA World Cup. This type of free-prize-at-the-cost-of-a-shipping-fee scam tricks users into providing their credit card details to an attacker. The messages claim the offer expires on the day of receipt, and the subject [...]
The NJCCIC received reports of a phishing scam abusing the legitimate Docusign platform and impersonating a New Jersey organization. In the Docusign envelope email notification, the impersonated organization’s name appears in the sender’s display name and the body of the email, and the sender’s domain name displays the legitimate docusign.net domain. However, the body of the email [...]
Analysts began monitoring a phishing scam known as “Payroll Pirates” that involves payroll redirection and primarily targets employees of various organizations, particularly those using Workday. The threat actors use malicious SEO poisoning and spoofed Human Resources (HR) pages to trick victims into providing employee portal credentials. Once they gain account access, they change banking information [...]
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