After the researchers revealed the deception of heavy SMS, a new process appeared in the wake of it

If you, like anyone else who has a mobile phone in the United States and beyond, you received a script Unpaid number or intangible mail elementThere is a good opportunity for you targeting a heavy fraud.

Fraud is not particularly complicated, but it was very effective. By sending unwanted text messages that appear to be real notifications for popular services, from postal delivery operations to local government programs, reassuring victims click on a link bearing the hunting page, and they enter the details of their credit card, and that this information is passed and used for fraud.

During a seven -month period in 2024, fraud recorded at least 884,000 details of the stolen credit card, allowing those who are scattered to benefit from the accounts of their victims. The researchers say that some victims have lost thousands of dollars in the fraud.

But a series of OPSEC errors ultimately prompted security researchers and investigative journalists to identity in the real world of the Magic Cat, which researchers say they say by Darcula.

like The OSLO security company has revealed its headquarters in OLO SMNONINIC and The Norwegian media informed the synonym Earlier this year, behind the gentle gentle cat in DARCULA photos, there is a 24 -year -old Chinese citizen named Yucheng C.

The researchers say Yucing C. developed Magic Cat for hundreds of customers, who use the program to launch their text messages for their victims.

Soon after his disclosure, Darcula became dark and the fraud has not seen any updates since then, leaving his customers in Lurch. But in its wake, a new process appeared and already outperformed its predecessor.

Researchers now show the alert on the new fraud process, Magic Mouse, which has risen of Magic Cat.

Before sharing the new results at the Def Con Security Conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Harrison Sand, an offensive security adviser in Mnemonic, Techcrunch that Magic Mouse has risen popularity since Magic Cat has been over.

Sand also warned of the increasing ability of the operation to steal people’s credit cards on a huge scale.

While achieving, Darcram has found pictures of Darcula, which shows a group of credit cards and videos that display shelves with dozens of phones used to automate sending messages to the victims.

Budgets use the card details in the portfolio portfolio on the phones and are performing paid fraud and laundering their money in other bank accounts. Some phones contain portable portfolios that overflow with stolen cards for others, and they are ready to be used in mobile transactions.

Sand Techcrunch was told that Magic Mouse is already responsible for stealing at least 650,000 credit cards per month.

While the evidence indicates that Magic Mouse is a completely new process, coding new developers and is likely to have nothing to do with Darcula, many Magic Mouse success stems from new operators who stealing hunting groups that made the previous program very common. Sand said that these groups contain hundreds of hunting sites that Magic Cat used to imitate the legitimate web pages from major technology giants, famous consumer services, and delivery companies, all designed to deceive the victims to deliver their credit card details.

But despite the abundant nature of Magic Cat, and now, Magic Mouse, and its ability to net millions of dollars of money stolen from consumers, I told Sand Techcrunch in an invitation that the application of the law does not look beyond some reports scattered about fraud or the broader process behind the plan.

Instead, Sand said, it is technology and financial giants that bear a lot of responsibility for allowing this fraud to exist and flourish, and not to make fraudsters more difficult to use stolen cards.

As for anyone receiving a suspicious text, ignoring an unwanted message may be the best policy.