Online scammers know the best way to pull in victims is to make something that is desperately desired seem easily obtainable, such as boosting one's chance of winning the U.S. Green Card lottery through a small payment.
A pair of Necurs botnet-fueled phishing campaigns were found targeting the banking industry this month, using Microsoft Publisher (.pub) file attachments to drop the FlawedAmmyy remote access trojan.
Researchers from Trend Micro have exposed two criminal cyber campaigns targeting South Korean organizations - one, a supply chain attack delivering a remote access tool under the guise of a software update, and two, a ransomware attack leveraging malicious .egg files.