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Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Dissent

Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent.

Becky Bracken reports:

Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company.

The Threat Intelligence team with GreatHorn made the discovery and explained it’s not simply libido driving users to click on these suggestive scams. Instead, these emails popping up on people’s screens at work are intended to shock the user, opening the door for them to make a reckless decision to click. It’s a tactic GreatHorn called “dynamite phishing.”

Read more on ThreatPost.

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