A better security strategy than ‘know your enemy’: Know your co-workers
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:51:00 -0800
Cyberthieves today know that it’s better to be sneaky and crafty than forceful. To be even more blunt, they know that it’s better to trick you into doing their work than to break in and do it themselves.
That trickery starts with ever-more-subtle ways to get you to click on an email attachment. A recent attack used an employee accomplice who was to flag any meetings with multiple people and note who was presenting. Within 30 minutes of one meeting’s end, the crooks sent an email attachment to everyone on the original email thread, with fake headers so that it appeared to be from the presenter. The email said, “Sorry, everyone. Here is the updated version of the slides from our 2 PM meeting.” Even an especially security-conscious person could get pulled into clicking on that one.
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