CopyPhish: a recent case of a successful contextualized phishing attack which resulted in stealing the entire IP of a SME and damaged also their reputation
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- Category: Social Engineering
- Published: Monday, 07 August 2017 13:04
This recent attack dates back to end of July, beginning of August and involves some interesting issues about tangible and intangible stolen assets of an SME.
The affected company produces Copyfish, an quite good OCR recognition browser extension (apparently installed 37.000 times). Ironically, due to their name (the hashtag CopyPhish was immediately used on the social media), they fallen in a well contextualized phishing attack (as well explained by themselves)...