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Spammers Targeting CEOs
from the sneaky,-sneaky dept
Apparently, late last week there was a well-coordinated spam attack directed at senior executives at various companies. The spam was personally addressed to CEOs, CIOs and CFOs among others, and contained an attachment to what was supposed to be an invoice, but what was actually a trojan horse program to hide on the network. The purpose, obviously, is corporate espionage, but it's interesting to see that spammers figure that the higher up they aim, the more likely they are to get a hit -- especially with the various stories about senior execs at big companies who still don't quite understand how email works. Of course, it's not clear that anyone has actually fallen for this yet -- so it's unclear if the targeting is effective (or if we'd ever know if it turned out to work). In the meantime, it is interesting to see spam scams become increasingly more sophisticated (and personalized).
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Spammer vs MAFFIA?
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Then the rest of the damn IT department devotes 3 employees to making sure the CEO never gets spam while he visits porn sites half the day.
And yes - I'm speaking from experience :P
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**Disclaimer**
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Targeted Audience
Considering some of the high level executives in the news recently, such as; the idiot who stole two laptops calling it retribution for "piracy," or the other bloke yapping about movie theaters and corn farming...
Who could ask for more?
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MAFIAA
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CEOs who read invoices?
As a matter of fact, they probably have support staff to personally filter corporate emails
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CEOs who read invoices?
As a matter of fact, they probably have support staff to personally filter corporate emails
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