A new DNS threat actor dubbed
Savvy Seahorse is leveraging sophisticated techniques to entice targets into fake investment platforms and steal funds.
"Savvy Seahorse is a DNS threat actor who convinces victims to create accounts on fake investment platforms, make deposits to a personal account, and then transfers those deposits to a bank in Russia," Infoblox
said in a report published last week.
Targets of the campaigns include Russian, Polish, Italian, German, Czech, Turkish, French, Spanish, and English speakers, indicating that the threat actors are casting a wide net in their attacks.