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Showing posts with label Social Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Engineering. Show all posts

Targeted Malware Attacks Against USPS Customers Using Location in Malware Filename

A friend contacted me today with an interesting piece of malware he received in his inbox. A "delivery notification" stating that USPS couldn't make a delivery, and requesting you to download and print out the attached label to claim your package.

Screenshot of original email

What makes this malware interesting is that it is clearly targeted, in that the malware sender knows the city of the email recipient.  In this case, the malware was named USPS_Label_Hagerstown.zip.

Hurricane Sandy Fake Webcam - A Social Engineering Experiment

Yesterday I decided to perform a bit of a social engineering experiment on USTREAM.

I provided "live" coverage of Hurricane Sandy from space.