The campaign saw over 115,000 illicit emails delivered.
Nearly 13,500 global education, healthcare, manufacturing, and finance organisations have been subjected to a phishing campaign exploiting the widely used educational platform Google Classroom.
Operating earlier this month, research from Check Point found that targets were mainly in North America, Europe, and Asia, reports GBHackers News. The campaign saw over 115,000 illicit emails delivered, with threat actors crafting the emails to impersonate real classroom join requests with unrelated commercial lures.
These were aimed at deceiving recipients into communicating with an attacker-controlled WhatsApp number, which further cemented the clandestine nature of the operation.
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