Don’t trust that tweet…or that email from "Bill Gates"
Jul 20, 2020Elaine Dzuba
Summary
This post details the detection of a sophisticated phishing campaign that leveraged typosquatting to create a domain strikingly similar to the legitimate 'gatesfoundation.org' domain. It highlights the use of a newly registered malicious domain ('gatesfoundatlon[.]com') for a Bitcoin donation scam, shortly after a similar incident on Twitter. The post includes the malicious domain's WHOIS record, SPF record, and Bitcoin address, demonstrating the technical details of the attack infrastructure.
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