Hackers Leverage PayPal to Send Malicious Invoices

Alessandro Mascellino / Reporter

Source : https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hackers-use-paypal-malicious/

Threat actors have been leveraging the online payments system PayPal to send malicious invoices directly to users through the platform.

The campaign was recently discovered by security researchers at Avanan, a Check Point company, who said it was different from previous campaigns seen by the company.

“This is different from the plenty of attacks we’ve seen that spoof PayPal. This is a malicious invoice that comes directly from PayPal,” reads an advisory published earlier today.

The phishing email seen as part of the malicious campaign warned users that there had been fraud on the account and threatened a fine of $699.99 should the victim not take action.