Phishing Attack.Phishing takes place when a fraudster tricks Attack.Phishing an individual into sharing sensitive information ( account numbers , Social Security numbers , login credentials , etc . ) by way of fraudulent emails , texts , or counterfeit websites . Phishing Attack.Phishing can also enable a scammer to gain access to a computer or network so that they can install malware , such as ransomware , on a victim 's computer . Phishers are able to achieve this by spoofing Attack.Phishing the familiar , trusted logos of established , legitimate companies . Or , they may pose as Attack.Phishing a friend or family member and are often successful in completely deluding Attack.Phishing their targets . In carrying out attacks , Dark Caracal uses trojanized WhatsApp and Facebook apps to try to lure Attack.Phishing users into clicking malicious links and downloading Android malware , called Pallas , which can collect vast amounts of data . Dark Caracal targets include governments , military organizations , utilities , financial institutions , manufacturing companies and defense contractors . Stealth Mango ( Android ) and Tangelo ( iOS ) , discovered by Lookout Security Intelligence , are surveillanceware tools that target government officials , diplomats , activists and military personnel , specifically in Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , India and the UAE . According to Lookout Security , “ data from U.S. , Australian , and German officials and military have been swept up in the campaign we believe is being run by members in the Pakistani military. ” Fake eFax email deceives Attack.Phishing email recipients by telling them they have received ‘ a new eFax ’ and that they need to click on a link button in the email to retrieve the document . The link goes to a phishing page . This is not a new attack , but has recently been spotted in emails again . Email filtering company , Mailguard , has picked up Attack.Phishing a fake E-Toll notification containing an infected .doc file . According to Mailguard , the file contains a malicious macro that will download malware to the victim ’ s computer . The notification also includes the logos of Microsoft Office and Mailguard in order to appear Attack.Phishing authentic . It even goes as far as to claim that , “ this document is protected by MailGuard '' . DHL branding was mimicked Attack.Phishing and fake shipping notifications were sent out Attack.Phishing , asking recipients to download an attached file that contained highly destructive trojan malware . “ MEWKit Attack.Phishing ” is a phishing attack Attack.Phishing that directly steals Ethereum from users of MyEtherWallet . Using MyEtherWallet as bait Attack.Phishing , it attempts to trick Attack.Phishing Ethereum investors into logging in to the bogus , cloned version of the website in order to steal their credentials . Gmail ’ s new Confidential Mode may invite link-baiting phishing attacks Attack.Phishing . According to analysis by ComputerWorld , “ Confidential Mode works by storing your email in a secure space on Google servers in the cloud . When both sender and recipient use Gmail , the email appears normal . But recipients who do not use Gmail get a link for viewing the email in a browser . The messages you send or receive via Confidential Mode are not actually email . The link is an email , but the message is an email-looking page on the internet that ’ s password-protected . Emails containing the link can , in fact , be forwarded , but only the intended recipient can successfully open the link . When someone gets one of these forwarded mails , they ’ re prompted for their Google login username and password to determine whether or not they ’ re the intended recipient . This is problematic , because it invites link-baiting phishing attacks Attack.Phishing , which could con people into revealing their login information . ” A phishing campaign Attack.Phishing targeting Apple users seeks to dupe Attack.Phishing victims into updating their profiles in preparation for the EU ’ s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) policies , which go into effect on May 25 . This is just one of many scams exploiting the coming implementation of GDPR policies .

The UK 's Foreign Office was targeted by highly motivated and well-resourced hackers over several months in 2016 . The BBC understands the government has investigated the previously unreported attack that began in April last year . The UK 's National Cyber Security Centre would not say whether data was stolen Attack.Databreach . But a source told the BBC that the most sensitive Foreign Office information is not kept on the systems targeted by the hackers . Research published on Thursday by cybersecurity firm F-Secure suggested the attack Attack.Phishing was a "spear-phishing" campaign Attack.Phishing , in which people were sent Attack.Phishing targeted emails in attempts to fool Attack.Phishing them into clicking a rogue link or handing over their username and password . To do this , the attackers created a number of web addresses designed to resemble Attack.Phishing legitimate Foreign Office websites , including those used for accessing webmail . F-Secure does not know whether the attack was successful . The company says the domains were created by hackers that it calls the Callisto Group , which it says is still active . However the UK 's National Cyber Security Centre ( NCSC ) declined to say who was behind the attack on the Foreign Office . The targeted emails that were sent out Attack.Phishing tried to fool Attack.Phishing targets into downloading malware which was first developed for law enforcement by the Italian software company Hacking Team . Hacking Team 's surveillance tools were previously exposed in a cyberattack , first reported in 2015 . There is no suggestion that Hacking Team had any involvement in the attacks . F-Secure said that the use of the software should remind governments that they `` do n't have monopolies on these [ surveillance ] technologies '' , and that once created the software can fall into the hands of hackers . The BBC has not seen evidence conclusively identifying the origin of the attack . A cybersecurity expert at another company , who wished to remain anonymous , found a link to information uncovered in the investigation of Russian efforts to influence the US election . Two of the phishing domains used by the hackers were once linked to an IP address mentioned in a US government report into Grizzly Steppe . Grizzly Steppe is the name given by the US government to efforts by `` Russian civilian and military intelligence services to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the US election '' . However , the cybersecurity expert noted that this connection between the phishing domain and Grizzly Steppe may be a coincidence , as over 300 other domains - many of them not hacking-related - were linked to the same IP address . F-Secure told the BBC that it did notice some similarity between the Callisto Group 's hacking and previous attacks that have been linked to Russia . However , it said despite some similarities in the tactics , techniques , procedures and targets of the Callisto Group , and the Russia-linked group known as APT28 , it believed the two were `` operationally '' separate . It noted that the Callisto Group was also less `` technically capable '' than APT28 .