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Senior execs targeted in 'precision' malware attacks

2 Jul 2007 12:36

Spear phishers prey on friends and family of top managers

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Well done.. 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 13:03 GMT

Ya, this time I am with the bad boyz.

..Given the outrageous compensation many top-execs are able to extort from their companies (at the expense of some thousands "redundancies"), I see no evil in that.

And if a CIO is not able to defend himself from those pesky attacks... Well it speaks for itself.

I would not be surprised if those leeches would invent an additional compensation to cover "hacking expenses"....

Me, no manager, just humble SysAdmin ;-)

Sill People 

By Stu Reeves
Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 13:19 GMT

Fancy targeting high level management. Surely they are the most tech savvy and least likely to fall for anything that is based on a persons greed...

Oh hold....

We're dooooommmmeeedd

Does this mean... 

By Wyrmhole
Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 13:49 GMT

...that MessageLabs read their customers' emails? What if a false positive gets "intercepted"?

From: Wife <wife@home>

To: Husband <husband@work>

Subject: Re: $$$

You will increase my credit card limit or else no hawt s3cks tonite!!

MessageLabs reports that lately CIOs have been getting increasing amounts of wife spam...??

Heavy MetAI ...... Hard Core Code 

By amanfromMars
Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 14:10 GMT

"This evolving trend of increasingly highly personalised attacks emphasises the effort and research in which the bad guys are willing to engage to potentially obtain very lucrative information." And the flip side of the Coin is .... so are the Good GUIs

Let IT Be?

Do you want to talk TransSubStantiation..... NEUKlearer Energy .... http://cryptome.org/boomer/boomer-refit.htm

An Open Top Secret 42 View in SubStantive Peace Talks.

Secretaries? 

By Dillon Pyron
Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 16:23 GMT

Ooops, I meant executive admins. I know of very few execs who actually read their email. Some do, but only after it's been parsed by their admin. So the affected computer isn't the exec.

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