Beware! Don't Fall for FireFox "HoeflerText Font Wasn't Found" Banking Malware Scam
May 05, 2017
The malicious scam campaign, " The 'HoeflerText' font wasn't found ," is back, which was previously targeting Google Chrome users to trick them into installing Spora ransomware on their computers. This time the campaign has been re-designed to target Mozilla Firefox users with a banking trojan, called Zeus Panda , says Kafeine , a security researcher at Proofpoint. Interestingly, the attackers behind this new campaign are so stupid that they forgot to change the name of the font, i.e. HoeflerText, due to which can be easily spotted. As I previously warned — Next time when you accidentally land up on a suspicious website with jumbled content prompting to update the Firefox or Chrome font pack by downloading a missing text font to read the article… Just don't download it. It's obviously a trap. Just like the previous one, the latest Firefox 'HoeflerText font wasn't found scam is also very convincing and easy to fall for. The attack in...
