Post-Holiday Delivery Phishing Campaigns Seek to Infect Your Devices with Malware

From hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

Bitdefender Antispam Lab has observed a spike in phishing campaigns impersonating popular delivery services that seek to lure consumers into downloading malicious files on their devices.

Email-based attacks that exploit trusted delivery companies increased by 30% since January 10 to date, compared to the holiday season.

As usual, threat actors mimic well-known delivery services such as DHLTNTFedEx, and UPS, as they send out fake shipping notification emails that urge recipients to review or access attachments by confirming and verifying invoices or home addresses.

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