April 2, 2020 By Tara Seals
Old phishing kits are being pressed into service to keep up with the unprecedented volume of new scams that exploit the pandemic.
Phishing attacks looking to take advantage of interest and fear around the COVID-19 health crisis are becoming a pandemic themselves – and apparently cybercriminals are looking to conserve resources by leaning on their older stockpiles of weapons to keep the infection wave going.
Or Katz, a researcher at Akamai, said in a posting on Thursday that older phishing kits that were previously deployed and then retired are being pressed back into service in order to target those working from home. In fact, Akamai researchers have seen recycled phishing kits from as far back as July being used in coronavirus-based phishing attacks now.
