Abuse GitHub notifications for phishing

Introduction This morning, I received a phishing notification disguised as a GitHub alert. In this short blog post, I want to share the techniques the attackers used and explain why it can be difficult to recognize such phishing attempts. Email In the image above, the first thing that caught my eye was the random name u7Fbclark, which made me stop before clicking the URL. Firstly, I checked the SPF and DKIM records to ensure that the email was coming from GitHub, and it was indeed from them....

September 19, 2024 · 3 min · 445 words · Me