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The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you're fired

ID: b6fb263d-886b-5d88-9be2-52714bace2f1

STIX ID: report--b6fb263d-886b-5d88-9be2-52714bace2f1

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-11-28

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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**Executive summary:** A financially motivated phishing campaign impersonates employment-termination tribunal notices and lures Windows users to a fake Microsoft site where a RAR archive contains a malicious VBScript (e.g., "Processo Trabalhista.vbs") that downloads a Base64-encoded payload and deploys additional malware, including the Ponteiro banking trojan and other infostealers; Cloudflare observed the campaign across multiple sectors and attributes the activity to a likely single actor using several sender addresses.

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