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The Fraud Family

| Author: Roberto Martinez and Anton Ushakov

Since the beginning of 2020, Dutch and Belgian residents have been increasingly targeted by financially motivated cybercriminals looking to obtain access to their bank accounts. In many strikingly similar cases, fraudsters reach out to victims via email, SMS, or WhatsApp messages to deliver fake notifications containing malicious links pointing to a phishing site. The phishing pages, detected by Group-IB Threat Intelligence & Attribution system, are almost identical and disguised to look like legitimate banking websites of the biggest local financial organizations with the goal of tricking unsuspecting victims into providing their personal and banking information.