Group-IB researchers expose a large-scale smishing and phishing operation impersonating 260+ brands across 72 countries, using fake Cloudflare error pages, geofencing, and encrypted WebSocket channels for real-time credit card theft.
The operation has a layered anti-analysis evasion architecture, which uses convincing fake Cloudflare error pages, like the “Error 524” timeout screen, as a decoy. The malicious content is only revealed to victims matching specific geofencing and mobile device criteria. This is combined with a technically mature infrastructure utilizing Base64 obfuscated Single Page Applications and real-time data exfiltration over encrypted WebSocket channels.
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Source: Group IB
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