Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers


Malwarebytes Labs researchers identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. A Bing search query for ‘Keybank login’ currently returns malicious links on the first page, and sometimes as the top search result.

Malwarebytes Labs has reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already. While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share, crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. One particularly interesting detail is how a phishing website created barely two weeks ago is already indexed and displayed before the official one.

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Source: Malwarebytes Labs 


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