Exposing Darcula: behind the scenes of a global Phishing-as-a-Service operation

10 karencarits 3 5/4/2025, 6:00:58 AM mnemonic.io ↗

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karencarits · 7h ago
This technical report is accompanied with news coverage at NRK, Le Monde, ARD and BR ("Darcula Unmasked")

* Part 1: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/inside-the-scam-network-1.1...

* Part 2: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/the-mastermind-1.17399157

Darcula has been mentioned on HN before, none of the threads gained any comments at the time

* 'Darcula' phishing platform targets postal organizations worldwide (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856821)

* 'darcula' iMessage and RCS smishing attacks target global postal services (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870714)

alfyboy · 3h ago
Interesting read! And kudos to the security researchers for investigating
thinkingemote · 7h ago
Fascinating and well written read.

In the photos of the rack of phones, they all have stickers on them. Is that the front camera and light sensor or microphone? Why would they cover those up?