"Hackers Harpoon US Executives With Phony Email Subpoenas" -
Full ArticleUS federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.
Internet security insiders refer to the attacks as "whaling" because they use social-engineering trickery involved in "phishing" but target individual "big phish" instead of casting nets in a sea of Internet users.
"The success rate was incredibly high,"
Just more evidence of the undeniable security risk of the human element.
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