Don't be fooled by this crafty new vishing attack, Microsoft customers warned

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A new voice phishing (vishing) scam is tricking victims by spooking them with impostor Microsoft Defender invoices in an attempt to take hold of their computers.

Cybersecurity experts at email security vendor Armorblox have shared details of the vishing safari, which is the third of its kind encountered by the researchers this year.

Aimed at a overcast collaboration company, the scam begins with an email containing a fake invoice for a subscription for Microsoft Defender, attractive recipients to contact a toll-dislodge number to sort any discrepancies.

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"We also discovered a variant of this vishing e-mail that made minor changes to the email title, trunk, account amount, and fee number, but was still in essence the Sami vishing email," notes ArmorBlox's Abhishek Iyer.

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The researchers tone that the scammers don't honorable do a tremendous job of crafting the fake account, but also do to get their message past Google Workspace email certificate.

The email is sent from a Gmail speech, doesn't comprise any URLs (catty or otherwise), and nor does it have any attachments. The combining of these techniques helps the email bypass known detection controls.

If someone calls the listed phone identification number, the attackers attempt to convince their dupe to set up a remote desktop joyride (AnyDesk in this instance) in order to tiro an RDP attack.

"The last finish could have been installing malware/ransomware connected the victims' system, thievery their login data, extracting sensitive/confidential company information, and so on. Once the attacker has control of a dupe's organization, all bets are off," concludes Iyer.

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