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In late 2024, security researchers at Avanan documented a surge of phishing campaigns that weaponized legitimate DocuSign and PayPal infrastructure to deliver convincing credential theft attacks. The emails didn't come from spoofed domains. They came from the actual DocuSign and PayPal platforms — which is exactly why they sailed
A Legitimate DocuSign Email That Steals Your PayPal Credentials In November 2024, Avanan researchers documented a wave of attacks where threat actors sent phishing emails through DocuSign's actual platform — not spoofed emails, but real DocuSign notifications. The documents inside impersonated PayPal invoices requesting payment authorization for hundreds or
Earlier this year, security researchers documented a surge in phishing campaigns that abuse legitimate DocuSign and PayPal infrastructure to deliver convincing attack emails. The twist? These messages aren't spoofed — they're actually sent through real PayPal and DocuSign servers. That's why PayPal DocuSign phishing attacks
A Perfectly Forged Invoice That Almost Worked Last month, a controller at a mid-sized logistics company forwarded me an email she'd almost clicked. It looked like a DocuSign envelope notification for a PayPal invoice — complete with the yellow DocuSign button, a legitimate-looking PayPal logo, and a $3,200
Last month, a finance manager at a mid-sized logistics company received what looked like a routine DocuSign envelope — a payment authorization supposedly routed through PayPal. She clicked, entered her PayPal credentials on a pixel-perfect fake login page, and within 90 minutes, the attacker had initiated $38,000 in wire transfers.
