Software
Activists targeted with barrage of creative phishing attempts
Reported by helpnetsecurity.com
More often than not, the human element is the weakest link in the security chain. This fact is heavily exploited by cyber attackers, and makes phishing and spear-phishing attempts the most likely and most effective method to start an attack.If the attackers are after a specific target there’s seemingly no end to the different lures they can come up with, as digital civil liberties activists at Free Press and Fight For the Future have recently witnessed.