By Dancho Danchev
Despite the fact that the one-to-many type of malicious campaign continues dominating the threat landscape, cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to better tailor their campaigns to the needs, wants, and demands of potential customers. Utilizing basic marketing concepts such as localization, market segmentation, as well as personalization, today’s sophisticated cybercriminals would never choose to exclusively specialize in one-to-many or one-to-one marketing communication strategies. Instead, they will multitask in an attempt to cover as many market segments as possible.
In this post, I’ll emphasize on a targeted attacks potentially affecting Steams’ users, thanks to the commercial availability of a DIY (do it yourself) Steam ‘information harvester/mass group inviter’ tool, currently available at multiple cybercrime-friendly online communities. What’s so special about the application? How would cybercriminals potentially use it to achieve their fraudulent objectives? How much does it cost? Is the author/vendor of the application offering access to its features as a managed service?
Let’s find out.
