Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk

Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk

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Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication In Zendesk

Cybercriminals are exploiting weak email authentication settings in Zendesk, using the platform's customer support systems to bombard targets with thousands of spam and harassing messages that appear to come from legitimate companies like The Washington Post, Discord, and NordVPN. KrebsOnSecurity reports: Zendesk is an automated help desk service designed to make it simple for people to contact companies for customer support issues. Earlier this…

Cybercriminals Exploit Zendesk Flaw for Email Bomb Attacks

In the shadowy world of cyber threats, a new form of digital harassment has emerged, exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used customer service platforms. Cybercriminals are leveraging lax authentication protocols in Zendesk, a popular tool for handling support tickets, to unleash “email bombs”—overwhelming floods of menacing messages that appear to originate from legitimate corporate sources. This tactic not only disrupts victims’ inboxes but a…

Attackers Exploit Zendesk Authentication Issue to Flood Targets’ Inboxes with Corporate Notifications

Cybercriminals have discovered a gap in Zendesk’s ticket submission process and are using it to bombard victims with waves of misleading support messages. When configured to accept anonymous requests, however, the service can be abused to generate email floods that appear to come from legitimate corporate domains. Earlier this week, security blogger Brian Krebs was […] The post Attackers Exploit Zendesk Authentication Issue to Flood Targets’ Inb…