Trick No Treat – Spearphishing
Today is Halloween. On this day kids and adults alike masquerade and engage in merriment. For children coming to your door, the greeting is "Trick Or Treat." There is another kind of masquerade that is taking place every day in cyberspace -- spearphishing. Instead of obscuring their identity for fun and games, spearphishers masquerade as trusted email senders. When you open the email, there is no treat, only an evil trick. For example, Quartz has confirmed that the Syrian Electronic Army used spearphishing to infiltrate the Obama inner circle and compromise the President's twitter feed. Spearphishers deceive people into making bad [...]