More than 50% of all phishing attacks that targeted Australia in 2019 were carried out using uPanel, officials said.
Ukrainian police arrested a 39-year-old man last week on accusations of developing and advertising one of the most advanced and widely used phishing toolkits of the underground hacking scene. The suspect, whose name was not released to the public, was arrested last week, on Thursday, February 4, in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, following an international investigation between law enforcement agencies in Australia, the US, and Ukraine. Sources familiar with the investigation told ZDNet the suspect was the author of a phishing tool named uPanel, sometimes also referred to as U-Admin. Fred HK, an independent malware security researcher who studied the toolkit in a report last year, described uPanel as the following: “U-Admin is a control panel for receiving logs from phishing kits, and controlling victim interaction.
