If you, practically, like someone else with a cell phone beyond a cell phone, receive a scam text message about an unchanging toll or undivided mail items, then there is a good chance that you have been targeted by a vast scam operation.
The scam is not particularly complicated, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages, which look like real information for popular services, from postal delivery to local government programs, unheard of unheard of ignorant of the victims click on a link that loads a fishing page, enter into their credit card details, and this information is swiped and used for fraud.
During a period of seven months in 2024, the scam gave a description of at least 884,000 stolen credit cards, allowing scammers to roast the accounts of their victims. Researchers say some victims lost thousands of dollars in the scam.
But a series of OPSEC mistakes eventually led Magic Cat to security researchers and investigative journalists to identify the real world of scaming software, which researchers say the handle goes by Darkula.
As Oslo-facilitated by security firm Mneemonic And Norwegian media reported in the lead Earlier this year, Darula’s profile photo is a 24 -year -old Chinese national behind the fluffy Cute Cat named Yucheng C.
Researchers say that Yucheng C develops magic cat for its hundreds of customers, who use software to start their own SMS text message scam campaign in their victims.
Soon after, he became reluctant, dark dark and his scam operation did not see any update leaving his customers in Lurch. But in view of this, a new operation has surfaced and is already carrying its predecessor ahead.
Researchers are now looking alarm on the new fraud operation, magic mouse, which rise from the ashes of the magic cat.
Before sharing the new conclusions at the DEF Con Security Conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Herrison Sand, an aggressive security advisor to Menémonic, told Techchchan that Magic Mouse has been growing in popularity since the death of Magic Cat of Darkula.
Sand also warned of increasing operations of people on a large scale to steal credit cards.
During his examination, the menmonic found photos from inside the operation posted in a telegram channel, which was administered by Darula, showing credit card payment terminals and videos, showing racks with dozens of phones used to send messages to the victims.
Scammers use card details in mobile wallets over the phone and conduct payment fraud, looting their money in other bank accounts. In some phones, mobile wallets were flowing with the stolen cards of others, which were ready to be used for mobile transactions.
Sand told Techchchan that the magic mouse is already responsible for the theft of at least 650,000 credit cards.
While the evidence suggests that the magic mouse is a completely new operation, there is a possibility of coded by new developers and being unrelated to Darula, the success of the magic mouse is stolen fishing kits from most of the new operators that make its preceding software so popular. Sand said that these kits used to use Magic Cat to mimic the Magic Cat to mimic the valid web pages of major technical veterans, popular consumer services and delivery firms, designed to prepare all the victims to hand over their credit card details.
But despite Magic Cat’s abundant nature and, now, the magic mouse, and their capacity for the purity of millions of dollars in the funds stolen from consumers, Sand told Techchunch in a call that law enforcement is not looking beyond some scattered reports or beyond the widespread operation behind the scheme.
Instead, Sand said, these are technical companies and financial giants who have great responsibility for allowing these scams to exist and flourish, and to use stolen cards not to make it more difficult for scammers.
For someone who receives a suspicious text, ignoring an unwanted message can be the best policy.
