Phishing campaigns and malicious websites impersonating the Trump campaign
According to a Mimecast report, businesses now face growing risk from phishing email attacks that prey on people’s political opinions, mirroring the COVID-19 cybercrime surge that preyed on fear.
Cybercriminals are now working to leverage those political brands to attack U.S. organizations and their employees. Mimecast Threat Intelligence researchers have begun discovering new website registrations, for example, for Donald Trump but with the “n” in Donald replaced with an “ñ”—a Spanish character more associated with aged tequila (i.e., añejo) than with politics. That one-letter difference is almost undetectable unless you’re paying extremely close attention, says the report.