Phishing Phiasco: When Hackers Overdo It with Useless CSS Fluff
Phishing messages are typically as exciting as watching paint dry, but occasionally they reveal unexpected twists. Enter CSS stuffing—a sneaky trick using heaps of innocent-looking code to outsmart security filters. It’s like disguising a Trojan horse as an overstuffed burrito! Talk about giving “style” a whole new meaning in phishing.
Hot Take:
Oh, the tangled web they weave when phishers practice to deceive! These cunning cyber crooks are now stuffing more CSS than a turkey at Thanksgiving, all in a bid to slip under the radar. It seems that not even our inboxes are safe from this new-age fashion crime!
Key Points:
- Phishing emails can sometimes reveal new and unusual tactics upon closer inspection.
- The phishing page used Google Firebase Storage for hosting.
- Source code was heavily bloated with unused CSS, including a full copy of bootstrap.min.css.
- This “CSS stuffing” technique might be an attempt to bypass security filters.
- The tactic could potentially fool heuristic or machine-learning based systems by altering the page’s statistical profile.
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