Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities
News Source : Help Net Security
News Summary
- Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project.
- In nearly 73% of cases, the lure led to a page built to steal login credentials.
- An attacker who gets into a business mailbox can search it for customer information, invoices, payment instructions, internal contacts and details of ongoing projects.
- Sales, procurement and customer-facing employees are the most exposed, since their jobs involve opening documents and links from people they have never dealt with.
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week.
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