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Beware: PayPal “New Address” feature abused to send phishing emails

An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform’s address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month, GeekFeed and others [1, 2] have received emails from PayPal stating, “You added a new address. This is just a quick confirmation that you added an address in your PayPal […]

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Phishing emails increasingly use SVG attachments to evade detection

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 geekfeed0Tagged Attachments, malware, phishing, Phishing emails, Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG

Threat actors increasingly use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) attachments to display phishing forms or deploy malware while evading detection. Most images on the web are JPG or PNG files, which are made of grids of tiny squares called pixels. Each pixel has a specific color value, and together, these pixels form the entire image. SVG, […]

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