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Want someone to click on your targeted attack? Disguise it as a LinkedIn message

  • June 7, 2016
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Graham Cluley | June 7, 2016 Security experts at Fox-IT are warning of a malware campaign that they have seen spammed out in the Netherlands.
 
Researcher Maarten van Dantzig warns that large numbers of emails have been sent out using Dutch text in both the body of the email and the attached boobytrapped Word document.
 
What makes the attack particularly interesting, explains Maarten van Dantzig, is that the emails have been constructed using information taken from LinkedIn profiles, in an attempt to make them look more convincing with the intention, one assumes the criminals hope, of more people opening the poisoned attachment:
 
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Baldrick
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NAsty, especially since a lot on the people on LinkedIn are business people who I suspect are somewhat time challenged at the best of time and therefore more likely as not will not take time to check for tale tale signs, etc.

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NAsty, especially since a lot on the people on LinkedIn are business people who I suspect are somewhat time challenged at the best of time and therefore more likely as not will not take time to check for tale tale signs, etc.
Precisely, these guys know what they doing, unfortunately.