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The PayPal Scam That Emailed You Your Own Password

ID: 7d5a6943-16c1-5b89-9114-318044530a5b

STIX ID: report--7d5a6943-16c1-5b89-9114-318044530a5b

Feed Name: IRONSCALES

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-20

Date Updated: 2026-07-20

Author: [email protected] (Audian Paxson)

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A high-severity callback phishing campaign impersonated PayPal and delivered a fabricated username/password block plus a phone number to a senior executive; because the message originated from an authenticated unrelated domain (verificationemail.com) sent via Amazon SES with DKIM/DMARC alignment and contained no link or attachment, commercial gateways rated it benign. The report includes IOCs (verificationemail.com, [email protected], IP 23.251.232.55, phone 828-246-9290), maps to MITRE T1566/T1598, and emphasizes behavioral analysis to detect credential-disclosure and TOAD callback lures.

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