Poisoned “Office 365” search results lead to stolen paychecks (opens in new tab)

A financially motivated hacking group is targeting Canadian employees with a sophisticated campaign designed to covertly redirect their salary payments into attacker-controlled bank accounts, Microsoft researchers discovered. SEO poisoning and malvertising + phishing + AiTM The group, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-2755, begins by poisoning search engine results and running malicious ads against generic queries like “Office 365”, or even common misspellings like “Office 265.” Victims who cli...