Arabic News Station Hit by Phishing Attack
Iain Thomson writes on vnunet.com:
What is described as "a prominent Arab media outlet" was hit by a spear phishing attack earlier in the year, security experts told vnunet.com today.
UK security firm Sophos, which detected the threat, said that the attack was targeted solely at the unnamed news organisation's users. It is not known from where the attack originated.
The emails claimed to link to new pictures of Osama Bin Laden, but in fact pushed victims to a site hosting a Trojan horse.
Once installed the Trojan allowed the remote hackers complete control of the news organisation's computer and could have given access rights to the company's server.
posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2005 07:56:00 AM
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