Fake Amazon gift card emails deliver the Dridex malware

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The Dridex malware gang is delivering a nasty gift for the holidays using a spam campaign pretending to be Amazon Gift Cards.
When distributing malware, malware gangs commonly use current events and the holidays as themes for phishing campaigns to lure people into opening malicious attachments.
Such is the case in a recent phishing campaign discovered by cybersecurity firm Cyberreason that pretends to be an Amazon gift certificate sent via email.
These emails, shown below, pretend to be a $100 gift certificate that users must redeem by clicking on a phishing email button [...]
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