We get these on a daily basis Examples are someone pretending to the be MD emailing the Finance Manger asking for a payment to be sent through. They make their display name the same as the manager and cant do much about that.They get the details for example from Social media
We have told our users to double check the email address and ask for approval verbally from the person. [image: image.png] On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:42 AM Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Morning all, > > Just got my first ever "live" spear phishing attack - an email slipped > through purporting to be from our MD to our CFO, asking for a $14k invoice > to be paid. They've named an australian BSB and account #, so I'm curious > as to what the attack vector is - is that bank account compromised? Do they > rely on a bounceback after a few days and then follow up with "oh, > actually, that should have gone via western union..." or is there something > more sophisticated at work? > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > -- Bradley Amm 0420 501 801
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