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Letters sent to Sen. Warner and shared exclusively with CyberScoop show platforms’ approach to AI and elections following calls that they aren’t doing enough.
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The Phosphorous APT has launched successful attacks against world leaders who are attending the Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit in Saudi Arabia, Microsoft warns. Continue reading Iran-linked APT Targets T20 Summit, Munich Security Conference Attendees
Iranian government-linked hackers have been sending spearphishing emails to large swaths of high-profile potential attendees of upcoming the Munich Security Conference as well as the Think 20 Summit in Saudi Arabia, according to Microsoft research. The Iranian attackers, known as Phosphorous, have disguised themselves as conference organizers and have sent fake invitations containing PDF documents with malicious links to over 100 possible invitees of the conferences, both of which are prominent summits dedicated to international security and policies of the world’s largest economies, respectively. In some cases the attackers have been successful in guiding some victims to those links, which lead victims to credential-harvesting pages, Tom Burt, corporate vice president of Microsoft Security and Trust announced in blog published Wednesday morning. “We believe Phosphorus is engaging in these attacks for intelligence collection purposes,” Burt wrote in the blog. “The attacks were successful in compromising several victims, including former ambassadors and other senior policy experts who help shape […]
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