Phishing Platform Targeting Trucking and Logistics Disrupted

Russian and Armenian Operators Tied to Logistics-Focused 'Diesel Vortex' Group Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • February 25, 2026

Investigators have identified, unmasked and disrupted a months-long organized criminal effort that sold a phishing-as-a-service tool to target Western users of popular logistics platforms.

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Researchers at cybersecurity startup Have I Been Squatted, which discovered the campaign earlier this month, said the phishing-as-a-service platform code appears to have largely been designed by a Russian-speaking developer, and the service was sold to users of Russian-language cybercrime forums. Subscribers used an external payment processor to pay cryptocurrency - in either bitcoin or tether, aka USDT.

The phishing platform has been tied to the deployment of 52 different ...