Kevin Poireault reports:
Keir Giles, a British expert on Russian information operations, has been targeted by a sophisticated spear phishing attack using novel social engineering techniques.
The writer and senior consulting fellow at the UK think tank Chatham House was lured into sending app-specific passwords to someone impersonating a US State Department employee.
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) investigated the case in collaboration with the Citizen Lab.
Read more at InfoSecurity Magazine.