Cyber-Security Awareness Month – Stellenbosch University – Spear-phishing target
In a previous article written for the Cyber-Security Awareness Month I talked about “spear-phishing“. Spear-phishing attacks target the university specifically instead of just sending out random “shot in the dark” emails that someone will hopefully fall for. Spear-phishing has been notoriously successful because scammers focus on university employees and student internet activity and send requests that look like the real thing, claiming to be from entities within the environment that you actually deal with. In the past couple of years we have had a couple of large-scale spear-phishing attacks that resulted in a number of student and personnel accounts...
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