Reimagining Cyber - real world perspectives on cybersecurity

The Malware Behind Holiday Scams - Ep 180


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Christmas holiday cybercrime is back in focus—but this time, Reimagining Cyber goes deeper than scams and suspicious messages. In a previous episode, we explored the holiday threat landscape from the victim’s point of view: phishing emails, fake delivery notices, and gift-card fraud. In this episode, cybersecurity expert Tyler Moffitt shift perspectives to what most people never see—the malware and criminal infrastructure that make those scams possible in the first place.

The conversation dives into info stealers as the foundation of modern cybercrime, including a new malware-as-a-service offering dubbed “SantaStealer.” Tyler explains how stolen credentials and session tokens quietly enable account takeovers, fraud, and abuse at scale—often weeks before any scam ever reaches a user’s inbox. You’ll also learn why these threats spike during the holidays, how attackers bypass MFA without phishing, and what defenders should be prioritizing beyond traditional email security.

If the last episode covered what holiday scams look like, this one explains how they’re powered—and why the real compromise often happens long before anyone realizes they’ve been targeted.

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