It used to be that one of the sure ways to identify a phishing email was to notice grammatical errors or broken English in the text of the communication. Thanks to new translation tools like Google Translate, which are available worldwide, threat actors can translate a phishing email into any language, so it sounds authentic
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FBI issues another warning of a “dramatic increase” in phishing spoofs of CEOs
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
We have consistently reported about increased phishing attacks through emails that purport to come from high level executives, including CEOs. According to the FBI, the hackers use sophisticated social engineering to spoof company emails to “assume the identity of the CEO, a company attorney, or trusted vendor. They research employees who manage money and use…