Microsoft Security Intelligence exposes phishing scheme that could be affecting you right now

Today in predictable cybercrime, at that place's a entrada going on wherein phishers are targeting people in the travel and aerospace industries with malicious emails containing loaders that pave the way for remote access Trojans (RATs) to steal data. Microsoft Security Intelligence exposed the whole operation over on Twitter.

In the past few months, Microsoft has been tracking a dynamic entrada targeting the aerospace and travel sectors with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which so delivers RevengeRAT or AsyncRAT. pic.twitter.com/aeMfUUoVvf
— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 11, 2022

It'south a classic phishing scheme: The bad player pretends to be a legitimate organization or individual and whips upward a very, very convincing email to enhance the legitimacy of the human action. That email contains an attachment disguised equally a PDF. The second it'south clicked, the RAT — in this specific campaign's case, RevengeRAT or AsyncRAT — then gets to piece of work on stealing your data.

What information volition it go after? Screenshots, credentials, browser information, network info, and even webcam data. Has your webcam seen anything lately you wouldn't be proud of sure eyes stealing a look at? And so beware.

You're not without help, though. Microsoft has published advanced hunting queries over on GitHub to help you suss out attacks in your environment.

As mentioned, this campaign is targeting two massive industries at an organizational level rather than individuals. However, individuals make up said organizations, so if you happen to work in the travel or aerospace sectors, you might exist one of the people targeted by these annoying phishing attacks. Watch out for bad folks posing as good folks, always triple-check that attachments are what they claim to be, and stay safe out there.

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