Japanese-Language Phishing Emails: Because Fuckwits Are Multilingual

Oh for fuck’s sake. The phishing cockroaches have added Google Translate to their arsenal and started pumping out Japanese-language scams. As if the universe needed proof that stupidity transcends all cultural boundaries. Some wanker in a tracksuit sitting in a Moldovan basement is now writing “urgent invoice” in kanji and watching the money roll in from salarymen who can’t tell a legitimate PDF from a digital turd sandwich.

Here’s how this fresh hell works: the shitgibbons send PDF attachments pretending to be from Japanese government agencies or big corporations. Inside these virus-laden fuckballs are QR codes that lead to credential-harvesting sites. They host on compromised Japanese WordPress sites because patching is apparently a forgotten art, like common fucking sense. They use hex encoding, URL shorteners, and every other obfuscation technique that makes my piss boil.

The worst part? It’s working. Morons are scanning these QR codes faster than I can update the blocklist. It’s like watching lemmings queue up to jump off a cliff, except the lemmings are wearing suits and holding company credit cards. The attackers even use stolen company logos and proper business Japanese – because nothing says “legitimate” like slightly-better-than-Google-translate grammar and a logo you stole from a fucking PDF you found online.

The official recommendations are the same shit we always give: don’t open random PDFs, verify senders, enable MFA, and maybe – I don’t know – develop a functioning brain cell. But let’s be honest, that’s like asking a toddler not to eat paste. The real solution is to replace all users with shell scripts that have better judgment. At least bash scripts don’t click on every goddamn thing that promises them a tax refund or threatens them with legal action.

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Last Tuesday, some genius from Accounting clicked one of these emails, entered their credentials, then had the brass balls to complain that our “stupid antivirus” should have stopped them. I explained that the antivirus did stop the actual malware – it just can’t fix terminal fucking idiocy. As a learning exercise, I’ve now configured their email to forward all future messages to a spam folder that requires them to solve a Rubik’s cube to access. They’ve been in my office three times this week begging for help. I’m considering making them do it while balancing on a unicycle. Fuck them.

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