Shipping-Themed Phishing Scams Target the Middle East and Africa

Group-IB reports a surge in shipping-themed SMS phishing campaigns targeting the Middle East and Africa that use Darcula phishing-as-a-service to scale localized, mobile-optimized spoofed tracking links (often with masked endpoints like index.html). Attackers tailor pages to mobile user agents and mimic known courier or client organization names to increase credibility; recommendations include never clicking unsolicited tracking links, verifying delivery status via official sites, and organizations improving domain security, user education, and verification tools.