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SpearPhish Your Phamily and Phriends!
I tried InfoSec Institute’s Phishing service, and here is how it played out! Over the past couple of days, while having some discussions regarding social engineering at work, I stumbled across this service. The InfoSec Institute provides phishing as a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, aware, education and awareness, fun, learning, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Your Data From Ashley Madison Was Leaked
A new phishing scam, to out cheaters, is being played out by bad actors. A phishing scam like the one below is being sent in mass in both phishing and spear phishing. Unfortunately, your data was leaked in the recent … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Ashley Madison, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Spear Phishing in Florida Nearly Leads to Half Million Dollar Loss
Orange Park City Hall nearly lost $500,000 from the city’s bank account at Wells Fargo, according to Security Info Watch. An email with an attachment was sent to an employee. Once the attachment was opened, similar emails were sent to … Continue reading
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Tagged Orange Park City Hall, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing, Wells Fargo
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SpearPhishing in Omaha Tricked a Financial Controller to send $17.2 Million to China
The FBI was brought in to investigate The Scoular Company after the controller wired $17.2 million dollars to China through their accounting firm, KPMG. There were emails to the controller from an email address that resembled but was not the … Continue reading
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Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, Omaha, phishing, Scoular, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, two-factor
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German Steel Mill Hacked
A spear phishing attack led to a German steel mill to perform an unscheduled shut down and a blast furnace could not be shut down as normal. Attackers were very skilled and used both targeted emails and social engineering techniques … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, auf der steel mill, hacked, Information Technology Security Awareness, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have announced that their system were compromised by a phishing attack. Some of the staff of ICANN fell victim to a spear phishing attack. From their website: ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, hacked, ICANN, Information Technology Security Awareness, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing
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