The long-running operation involved hijacked email accounts, phony login pages and a legitimate ID verification service.

Researchers at Avanan have found evidence of a phishing campaign that involves whited-out text intended to trick email security filters.

Researchers at Intel471 and AdvIntel say the cybercrime group probably has other plans for its talents.

"We could not find any evidence that these tools were used previously, or attribute them to a specific threat actor," Check Point researchers said.

Check Point Research inspected the malware's formidable layers of "anti-analysis" and "anti-deobfuscation" capabilities.

Police in Spain might averted big losses with some Mekotio-related arrests earlier this year, but the malware is back.

Few details about the incident were immediately available.

The campaign appears to be tied to a long-running operation that has also targeted government entitites in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

It's just the newest digital woe for the Turkic-speaking ethnic group.

They're using fake job documents to target victims.