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August 6, 2017

New spearphishing technique – Phishing for Leaks

Filed under: Cybersecurity,Journalism,News,Phishing for Leaks,Reporting,Security — Patrick Durusau @ 8:30 pm

Timo Steffens tweeted:

New spearphishing technique: Targeted mail contains no links or exploits, but mentions report title. Googling title leads to exploit site.

Good news for wannabe government/industry leakers.

This spearphishing technique avoids question about your cybersecurity competence in evaluating links in a phishing email.

You did a search relevant to your position/task and Google delivered an exploit site.

Hard to fault you for that!

The success of phishing for leaks depends on non-leak/spoon-fed journalists.

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