Massive Phishing Attack Launched from High Cost, “Legitimate” Infrastructure

Predictive e-mail defense company Vade Secure said has uncovered a new wave of phishing attacks that targeted 550 million email users globally in Q1 of 2018, pushing incidents of phishing past malware attacks on its trackers. Whilst the rise in phishing attacks has been well-reported, they are typically made from pirated websites, but as Vade notes, for this attack the IP addresses, servers, and domain names used by the hackers appear to be leased and therefore legitimate.

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