3 ms·
Per the article, they did a bunch of well crafted phishing at a large scale. Key takeaways: - Phishing continues to be highly successful (not a shocker) - Ph
by albntomat0 6y ago
Per the article, they did a bunch of well crafted phishing at a large scale.
Key takeaways:
- Phishing continues to be highly successful (not a shocker)
- Phishing as a Service has significant demand
- The researchers enumerated the targets via poor operational security of the attackers, including one who apparently used their CV as a test document.
- badrabbit 6y agoThat said, there has been a recent trend moving away from phishing. Exposed services are gaining more popularity,especially for cloud vms.
- albntomat0 6y agoIn that phishing is happening less, or more folks are not properly securing their cloud services?
- badrabbit 6y agoIn that, phishing for malware delivery is getting harder so some gangs try unsecured cloud/onprem assets for initial access. Phishing levels have not changed overall from my perspective but how targeted attacks happen seems to be tilting slightly to other initial access tactics.
- whydoyoucare 6y agoIn another decade, it will continue to be highly successful, since it exploits a basic human qualities (greed, curiosity, fear, etc.).