According to the latest research published by Bitdefender Labsit seems that trips e vacation are currently in the center of a intense phishing campaign widespread internationally. Research telemetry analyzes show a strong increase of the phenomenon precisely in conjunction with the start of the summer holiday season. Let’s find out all the details together.
As revealed, these campaigns use different techniques to deceive users and trick them into provide personal information, credentials e credit card data. Among the main techniques used are fake surveys / gifts and dangerous websites.
According to Bitdefender, the travel-themed spam e vacation hit the mailboxes of users internationally starting from March 2022. In particular, the United States were affected (37%); Ireland (18%); India (12%) and the United Kingdom (9%).
It also appears that cybercriminals are using different modes:
Bitfender reveals that cybercriminals they also exploited malicious domains and URLs to induce potential victims a download infected attachments in the form of invoices e transactions with credit card. Usually these methods provoke an emotional reaction from the recipients and lead them to fall victim to the scam.
Bitdefender’s spam and malware filters also detected a particularly dangerous campaign. According to reports, the criminals are pretending popular international hotel chains e tour operators actually transmitting trojans capable of stealing credentials. Among the main names stolen are Accor Hotels, Panorama Tours, Meritus Hotels and many others.
Below we present the objects of emails used by cybercriminals.
About 23 million Italians intend to leave in the summer, as confirmed by the Confturismo-Confcommercio Observatory, Bitdefender invites all users to pay close attention when booking their holidays and travels. Here are some tips to avoid falling into any scams.
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