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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 25, 2019, 06:30:30 PM

Title: Shipping Firms Speared with Targeted ‘Whaling’ Attacks
Post by: maruf.swe on March 25, 2019, 06:30:30 PM

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Bad actors are imitating high-level executives in the shipping industry to launch BEC attacks that could lead to credential theft or worse – system compromise.

Scammers are honing in on the shipping industry, using “whaling,” a.k.a. business email compromise (BEC) attacks, to scoop up credentials, or worse, compromise critical systems.

For More Details : https://threatpost.com/shipping-execs-whaling/140643/ (https://threatpost.com/shipping-execs-whaling/140643/)