Coming Together to Tackle Phishing ? For the Greater Good
Every day, Akamai?s Threat Research team tracks and mitigates phishing attack campaigns to help keep our customers ? and their reputations ? protected. Recently, they tracked an orchestrated attack campaign comprising more than 9,000 domains and subdomains, mainly targeting victims located in China. The phishing scam was abusing more than 15 high-profile and trusted brands spanning ecommerce, travel, and food & beverage industries. By using well-known brand names, the threat actors attempted to engage victims to participate in a quiz that, once completed, would result in winning an attractive prize. Akamai refers to this malicious modus operandi as a ?question quiz? phishing attack campaign.