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Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments

A sophisticated fraud operation has been running for over nine years, creating fake websites that impersonate major Russian companies in sectors like fertilizers and petrochemicals. The campaign targets international firms by tricking them into sending advance payments to fraudulent accounts through these cloned websites.

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July 29, 2026 · 1 min read

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years. According to Russian cybersecurity vendor F6, the threat actors have set up clone websites of Russian companies across fertilizer manufacturers, petrochemical companies

Originally published at thehackernews.com

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