An ongoing phishing campaign has targeted top officials at a German multinational company tasked with the procurement of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The targeted firm is part of the German government’s private sector task force commissioned to leverage international contacts to obtain medical equipment for healthcare providers treating patients. IBM X-Force researchers found more than 280 URLs tied to a Russia-based IP address and over a third of them had Base64 encoded email IDs belonging to officials at the targeted corporation and companies that made up its third-party supply chain.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/phishing-attack-targeted-german-covid-19-task-force-firm-a-14408