'Scam-as-a-Service' Scheme Spreads
Fake landing page used by Russian-language cybercriminals to collect victims' personal and financial data (Source: Group-IB) A Russian-speaking "scam-as-a-service" operation dubbed "Classiscam" is expanding globally, with 40 interconnected gangs in about a dozen countries using fake product advertisements to launch phishing schemes, the security firm Group-IB reports. The fraudsters are posting fake online classified advertisements for products to dupe interested buyers into visiting phishing pages, where their personal and payment data is harvested, according to Group-IB. Although the operat...