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Email fraudsters deploy sophisticated tactics to dupe users
Email fraud is escalating, with scammers employing advanced tactics such as domain hijacking to deceive millions.
A sophisticated ad fraud campaign, dubbed “SubdoMailing,” has been exploiting over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to dispatch upwards of 5 million emails daily, engaging in scams and malvertising to generate illicit revenue, according to a recent report by Bleeping Computer. Uncovered by Guardio Labs researchers Nati Tal and Oleg Zaytsev, the SubdoMailing operation has been active since 2022, leveraging the reputations of well-known companies by hijacking their abandoned subdomains and domains. Victims of this domain hijacking include high-profile entities such as MSN, VMware, McAfee, The Economist, Cornell University, CBS, NYC.gov, PWC, Pearson, Better Business Bureau, Unicef, ACLU, Symantec, Java.net, Marvel, and eBay.
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