{"id":31767,"date":"2019-11-12T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30673\/Phishing-Emails-Spoof-WebEx-Invites-Abuse-Open-Redirect.html"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:24:24","slug":"phishing-emails-spoof-webex-invites-abuse-open-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/phishing-emails-spoof-webex-invites-abuse-open-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Emails Spoof WebEx Invites, Abuse Open Redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wysiwyg\">\n<p>That WebEx meeting invite you just received may actually be a phishing email that spreads the WarZone remote access trojan by abusing a Cisco open redirect.<\/p>\n<p>An open redirect is an app or website vulnerability \u2014 caused by improper authentication of URLs \u2014 that allows attackers to introduce their own URLs that route users or visitors to a malicious website. Researcher Alex Lanstein discovered the campaign last week and on Nov. 6 issued a tweet explaining how the scam works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty slick webex phish\/spoof\u2026 leverages what appears to be a redirect service on Cisco\u2019s page to redirect to the malware (called webex.exe)\u201d wrote Lanstein, whose tweeted was previously spotted and reported by BleepingComputer\u2019s Lawrence Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>Victims of this scam receive a convincing-looking meeting invitation, replete with a meeting number, password and time. There is also a \u201cJoin Meeting\u201d button, just as there would be had they received a genuine invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, users who click this button are routed to a site and subsequently prompted to download the official WebEx client. But by abusing the Cisco open redirect, the attackers instead send victims to a site that downloads WarZone as a malicious payload, disguised as a webex.exe executable.<\/p>\n<p>According to BleepingComputer, WarZone can download and execute software, execute commands, take over webcams, delete files, enable Remote Desktop Services and VNS for remote access, log keystrokes and steal Firefox and Chrome passwords.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post-tags\">\n<h2>Topics:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/tag\/cybercrime\/\" class=\"button -secondary\">Cybercrime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/tag\/malware\/\" class=\"button -secondary\">Malware<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/tag\/phishing\/\" class=\"button -secondary\">Phishing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/tag\/vulnerabilities\/\" class=\"button -secondary\">Vulnerabilities<\/a><\/section>\n<p>READ MORE <a 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