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Interesting spear fishing type attack
From: cmerkel at gmail.com (Chris Merkel)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:39:22 -0600
I've seen this before - it's generally not spear phishing though. What I've seen happen is that a person's webmail account gets owned, and the attacker uses the account to send that story to everyone in their address book. They're really good, in some cases - I had an acquaintance who did business in Laos and Malaysia, and when I got that same email, I really had to think it through before I trashed it - the email claimed they had been traveling in that area and gotten mugged. - Chris On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, PJ Velasco <pjvela at gmail.com> wrote:
One of the guys I work with got an email from a person he used to know real well years ago. The email claimed that the person was stuck in the UK and needed money to come back home to the states. I thought this was an interesting angle. Identify and research your target (as usual), but instead of looking for current group memberships or vendors you search classmates.com or other reunion type social networking sites and craft an email using someone they used to go to school with. Obviously this did not work on my coworker, but I thought the list would find it interesting. _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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