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by mark mj mark (2022-11-05)

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“They include the director of speechwriting for Hillary for America and the deputy director office of the chair at the DNC,” the report says. “(The hackers) created 150 short links targeting this group. As of this publication, 40 of the links have been clicked at least once.”

Clicking on a link does not mean the clicker subsequently entered login information and fell for the scam. But the high click rate certainly suggests some victims did. So does the timing of all this; The DNC hack was revealed in June, weeks after this spear phishing campaign.

Release, last week, of what appears to be the actual email that led to the hacking of Podesta’s email on Wikileaks — sorry for the circular reasoning there — seems to confirm SecureWorks’ analysis. An email sent to gmail login appears to come from Google and suggests that someone located in the Ukraine had tried to access his account.

“Google stopped this sign-in attempt. You should change your password immediately,” it says. “CHANGE PASSWORD.” And there’s a link headed fo



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