{"id":4017,"date":"2005-12-19T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/more-spear-phishing.html"},"modified":"2005-12-19T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T14:27:47","slug":"more-spear-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/more-spear-phishing.html","title":{"rendered":"More Spear Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"7\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/spear-phishing.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"7\" border=\"0\" \/>I originally wrote about <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/spear-phishing.html\"><font size=\"2\">spear phishing<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> this past summer. In case you missed it these attacks are more targeted and designed to look like they are coming from a trustworthy source such as someone in your enterprise. It seems people will share their passwords fairly willingly via e-mail if the trust the source.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a more recent <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,1902896,00.asp?kc=ewnws121905dtx1k0000599\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> on spear phishing and how hackers are targeting credit union executives by sending them a link to a site that contains a Trojan horse program. Some users had recently updated their virus definitions and were safe from the attack. It is unclear how many people were duped by this fraudulent e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cspear phishing\u201d is a very accurate as in this case some credit unions received e-mails to a dozen senior executives over a period of 45 minutes. Rather than blast a database the senders of the e-mail were very careful not to set off alarms from antivirus or spam software.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the phishers in this case had bad grammar and some recipients of the e-mail become immediately suspicious of the scheme.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally wrote about spear phishing this past summer. In case you missed it these attacks are more targeted and designed to look like they are coming from a trustworthy source such as someone in your enterprise. It seems people will share their passwords fairly willingly via e-mail if the trust the source. Here is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[586,587,270,226,588],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}