Cybercriminals are trying to profit from the Black Lives Matter protests. After jumping on the COVID-19 pandemic to launch masses of scams, they’re now looking to spread dangerous malware by luring Americans in with Black Lives Matter-related phishing attacks in the middle of the widespread protests supporting the black community. In a phishing attack caught by cybersecurity outfit abuse.ch, spam emails are going out with the subject line: “Vote anonymous about ‘Black Lives Matter.’” There’s not much in the content of the email, just the statement: “Leave a review confidentially about Black Lives Matter... “From what I see is that the spam campaign was pretty big, apparently hitting US mailboxes,” a spokesperson from abuse.ch told Forbes. However, these days TrickBot is heavily used by various threat actors to install additional malware on the victim's computer.

Source: Forbes June 11, 2020 09:22 UTC