{"id":883,"date":"2019-01-25T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/?p=883"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:16:13","slug":"phishing-attacks-january-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/emerging-threats\/phishing-attacks-january-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing \u2014 January 2019 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We have detected a wave of cyberattacks targeting multiple Italian organizations in recent days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Threat actors employ malicious attachments to redirect users to sites hosting malware or phishing pages, representing the <strong>initial phase of more severe system compromise<\/strong> within targeted enterprises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The email body contains minimal information, with a <strong>PDF file<\/strong> attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/email_malware-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"892\" data-link=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/?attachment_id=892\" class=\"wp-image-892\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/MAIL-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"885\" data-link=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/?attachment_id=885\" class=\"wp-image-885\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>The PDF contains a link to a malicious site that induces users to download <strong>malware<\/strong> or submit <strong>credentials<\/strong>. This attack chain aligns with T1566.001 (Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment) and T1598.003 (Phishing for Information: Spearphishing Link), tactics commonly observed in initial access operations. Organizations implementing <a href=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/en\/cyber-threat-intelligence\/\">Cyber Threat Intelligence<\/a> capabilities can identify such indicators of compromise and establish detection rules to prevent credential harvesting and malware deployment at the perimeter:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/PDF-1024x387.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"893\" data-link=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/?attachment_id=893\" class=\"wp-image-893\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/PHISHING-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"886\" data-link=\"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/news\/?attachment_id=886\" class=\"wp-image-886\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing campaigns observed during January 2019: lure templates, payload delivery and indicators across waves targeting Italian organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3163,3256,3348,269,3347],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emerging-threats","tag-email-threats","tag-italian-targeting","tag-lure-analysis","tag-phishing","tag-phishing-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortgale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}