HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team recently uncovered and disrupted a sprawling fraud operation centered on fake web shops that abuse digital payment providers to steal consumers’ money and credit card information. The threat, dubbed Phish ’n’ Ships, is made up of hundreds of fake web shops offering in-demand items.
The threat actors, whose internal tools used Simplified Chinese, drove traffic to these fake web shops by infecting legitimate websites with a malicious payload. This payload creates fake product listings and adds metadata that puts these fake listings near the top of search engine rankings for the items, making them an appealing offer for an unsuspecting consumer. When a consumer clicks on the item link, they’re redirected to another website, this one controlled by the threat actor.
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Source: HUMAN Security
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