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Keeping You Safe II – Our Security Note on Spear-Phishing Attacks

December 11th, 2019 | by

 

Targeted Phishing: Spear Phishing is a serious threat to our data.
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According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), both universities and research institutions are in danger regarding them. What we are talking about here are spear phishing attacks. This is the technical term for very tricky cyber-attacks with targeted e-mails. This time, however, the wave of attacks is particularly vicious: the mails that are sent contain links to realistically simulated fake websites of the particular institutions and request users to enter their access data.

 

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