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13516444684?profile=RESIZE_400xThe US FBI is warning that a threat moving across America “from state to state" targets citizens via malicious SMS (smishing) texts, telling iPhone, Android users to “delete any smishing texts received.”  Now cybercriminals have registered “over 10,000 domains” to fuel a new wave of attacks.  These new texts are easy to detect, delete them right away.

The new report comes via Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.  The new campaign, it says, “entices users to reveal personal and/or financial information,

12426659867?profile=RESIZE_180x180Chinese-language Phishing-as-a-Service platform ‘darcula’ targets organizations in 100+ countries with sophisticated techniques using more than 20,000 phishing domains.  ‘Darcula’ [sic] is a new, sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform used on more than 20,000 phishing domains that provide cyber criminals with easy access to branded phishing campaigns. Rather than the more typical PHP, the platform uses many tools that high-tech startups employ, including JavaScript, React, Docker,