Credential Phishing

2026-07-019 minCofensehigh

Cofense Intelligence reports a strategic shift in phishing operations toward platform-aware delivery, where threat actors fingerprint victim devices via browser User-Agent strings and deliver OS-specific payloads from a single landing page. Windows users receive legitimate remote access tools like ConnectWise RAT or Itarian RAT repurposed as malware, while MacOS and Android users are redirected to credential phishing pages. The abuse of legitimate RATs evades signature-based detection, and platform-siloed security tools fail to correlate the campaign across operating systems, leaving organizations with an incomplete picture of the intrusion scope.

2026-06-175 minCofensehigh

A sophisticated multi-stage phishing campaign is spoofing the IRS and Elon Musk to lure victims into a fraudulent cryptocurrency initiative. The attack chain begins with an email offering a fake $5,000 tax refund, which redirects to a credential harvesting site that steals extensive PII, including government IDs and bank routing numbers. Victims are then funneled into a fake trading dashboard designed to facilitate direct financial fraud and continuous Bitcoin theft.

2026-05-136 minMicrosofthigh

In Q1 2026, Microsoft observed 8.3 billion email-based phishing threats, characterized by a 146% surge in QR code phishing and rapid evolution in CAPTCHA-gated payload delivery. Despite disruption efforts against the Tycoon2FA adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) platform, threat actors quickly adapted their infrastructure, while Business Email Compromise (BEC) remained highly prevalent using conversational social engineering.

2026-05-135 minCofensehigh

Threat actors are increasingly weaponizing the legitimate Telegram Bot API to establish Command and Control (C2) channels and exfiltrate stolen data. This technique is widely adopted across credential phishing campaigns and malware families like Agent Tesla and Pure Logs Stealer, allowing attackers to bypass traditional network defenses by blending malicious traffic with legitimate Telegram communications.