Twilio, Cloudflare just two of 135 orgs targeted by Oktapus phishing campaign
The phishing sites, which looked very similar to the organizations' real authentication pages, asked employees to enter their username and password, and then asked them for a 2FA code. These stolen credentials were then sent to an attacker-controlled Telegram channel, and miscreants used them to access corporate data, emails and internal documents, we're told.
While most of the companies targeted can be broadly categorized as technology firms — this includes 53 software vendors, 22 telecom companies and 21 business services providers — attackers also hit organizations in finance , education , retail , logistics , video games , legal services , and power supply .
"Seeing financial companies in the compromised list gives us the idea that the attackers were also trying to steal money," the researchers noted."Furthermore, some of the targeted companies provide access to crypto assets and markets, whereas others develop investment tools." The bulk of the targeted organizations are headquartered in the US , and those in other countries have US-based employees who were targeted, according to Group-IB.
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