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Phishers Take Advantage of Iberian Blackout Before It's Even Over

ID: b4ebdeba-6e09-5f92-86c4-8188a44c26aa

STIX ID: report--b4ebdeba-6e09-5f92-86c4-8188a44c26aa

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2025-04-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Threat actors are exploiting a Europe-wide power outage to run a phishing campaign impersonating TAP Air Portugal. Emails in Portuguese and Spanish lure victims with bogus flight-compensation claims linking to credential- and payment-data-harvesting pages hosted on compromised WordPress sites; no malware or further redirects were observed, indicating the primary intent is data theft via social engineering.

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