At the end of March, we reported that several people in Hungary had received suspicious messages stating that their parcel had arrived. With this message, cyber criminals were actually spreading a different type of malware called Flubot, which was mainly created to obtain financial services / banking data.
Although the wave has since calmed down in Hungary, the attackers are now targeting the UK, starting from the days. To report About the local portals where the British receive huge fake parcel delivery letters on behalf of Amazon, DHL and ASDA services. The UK Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) issued an alert while both service providers and Vodafone began notifying their customers of the malicious message. Burak AjaAn expert from the security company Lookout said that cell phone owners across Europe are at risk of a new, targeted attack.
Foreign tech portals began writing on March 5 about a massive wave of attacks sweeping Spain, specifically with FluBot in question. Security experts say that the Android malware has infected more than 60,000 devices in just two months, 97 percent of the victims are Spanish users. FluBot affected a quarter of Spain’s population and was able to collect more than 11 million phone numbers with it. Later, attacks were also detected in Turkey and Poland, and we reached this at the end of March.