This bulletin highlights multiple real-world threats, including voice-phishing (vishing) operations that industrialize account takeovers and a fake CCleaner download site that installs spyware. The items provide concrete, repeatable lures (a vishing-driven takeover workflow and a lookalike software download) that can be turned into realistic awareness simulations.
Mirage safely runs attacks like this one against your own team, so you find out what happens before a real adversary does.
Imagine this: your phone rings, and a "security team" walks you straight into a fake login and spyware install in under two minutes. There’s a tool called Work Panel that lets criminals spin up vishing campaigns like a call center: one button to register a phishing domain, clone your company’s login, and launch a brand-new fake site in minutes. The script sounds like this: "Hi, this is the security team about suspicious sign-in activity." They give you a login link, watch you sign in, grab your codes, then send you to a fake CCleaner site like ccleanerwind.top that drops a GhostDesk Chrome extension to steal your passwords and screenshots. Your move: if anyone calls about “securing your account” and tells you where to log in or what to install, hang up and instead use your normal bookmark or our official portal to check your account yourself.
Rapid7 uncovered an active cryptocurrency fraud operation that combined phishing emails, follow-up phone calls, and counterfeit wallet apps to trick victims into handing over wallet recovery (seed) phrases. The attackers validated and enriched phone-number leads first, then used matching “support…
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This roundup describes real-world social engineering, including phishing emails that impersonate ChatGPT billing to steal payment card data and a convicted attacker who posed as Snapchat support to trick people into handing over login codes. The common theme is impersonation of trusted brands to…
