Office 365 users targeted in SurveyMonkey phishing attack

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Asphishing attackscontinue to increase, it’s such a bad time for a Windows 10 user not to have an effectiveantimalwaresolution installed on their PC.

Worse still, spear phishing is the name of the game these days, in which case, the recipient of the malicious email or link is always a well-researched individual. It’s partly why such attacks are very difficult to stop.

Threat actors havetargeted Office 365 usersin these types ofcybercrimemultiple times before, and they continue to do so to date. Unsurprisingly, some of the latest victims/targets are employees participating in a fake SurveyMonkey survey.

SurveyMonkey phishing attack

The folks at Abnormal Security recentlyuncoveredattempts to steal O365 user credentials on the pretext of conducting surveys among employees.

In the campaign, the victim receives an email from a genuine SurveyMonkey site. But the message contains a hidden link, which upon clicking, redirects the victim to a Microsoft form submission page.

The user has to submit theirO365email and password to proceed. This way, the malicious actors steal the unsuspecting user’s Microsoft account security credentials.

The email is sent from a real SurveyMonkey domain (surveymonkeyuser.com), but with a different reply-to domain. That reply-to domain was registered only 1 month ago. The email simulates an automated notification with a link to open the “survey”. This link is an actual SurveyMonkey link that redirects to the main phishing page.

It appears that these spear phishing attacks have a high probability of success due to various factors, including the use of a trusted domain. Likewise, concealing the redirect link makes it a little difficult for the target to suspect anything.

Abnormal Security points out that up to 50,000 mailboxes may have received the SurveyMonkey phishing link.

What’s your take on the state of cybersecurity against the backdrop of rising cases of Office 365-related phishing attacks? Feel free to let us know via the comments section below.

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