[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2262180/iranian-group-created-fake-news-organization-as-part-of-hacking-campaign.html[/url]
[QUOTE]A suspected Iranian hacker group seeded Facebook and LinkedIn with bogus profiles of attractive women and even created a fake online news organization to get digitally closer to more than 2,000 people whom it wanted to spy on.Once they had befriended their targets through fake profiles, the people were emailed malicious links designed primarily to steal email account credentials, according to a report titled “The Newscaster Threat,” released Thursday by iSight Partners, a security consultancy.
“If you can get into the corporate email client, there is a lot of intelligence gathering capability,” said Patrick McBride, vice president of iSight’s marketing and communications, in a phone interview.
The group is suspected to be in Iran, based on their working patterns and the location of their command-and-control infrastructure, said McBride said. Their activity is consistent with government-sponsored espionage campaigns, but “we don’t have anything specific tying them back to the government,” he said.
Those targeted were more than 2,000 U.S. military members, U.S. lawmakers, journalists based in Washington, D.C. U.S. and Israeli defense contractors and lobbyists for Israel, iSight said in its [URL="http://www.isightpartners.com/2014/05/newscaster-iranian-threat-inside-social-media/"]report[/URL], which it did not publicly release. It is believed the hackers wanted to obtain intellectual property or other sensitive information that would benefit Iran.
“We can certainly say it [the hackers’ campaign] was successful,” McBride said.
The campaign, which started around 2011, is notable for its low-tech but effective social-engineering methods, iSight said. The hackers slowly bolstered fake but credible-looking online personas on social networks, said Steve Ward, senior director for marketing. Profile photos, often of attractive women, were copied from random photos.[/QUOTE]
Here's the website. First person to find a way to troll them wins:
[url]http://www.newsonair.org/[/url]
The only way to get revenge on social engineers is by using better social engineers against them. Trust me on this :v:
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44939141]The only way to get revenge on social engineers is by using better social engineers against them. Trust me on this :v:[/QUOTE]
Out social engineer the social engineers?
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Fight social engineers with social engineers
[QUOTE=gokiyono;44940172]Out social engineer the social engineers?
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Fight social engineers with social engineers[/QUOTE]
Hacker: "Hi, I'm from SecuriCorp, we need access to your password database so that we can evaluate your security!"
Counter-Hacker: "Tell me Simon, did you mother never hug you as a child?"
Hacker: "W-what?!"
Counter-Hacker: "It's okay to open up here, we're all on the same side. No one's going to judge you."
Hacker: *sobbing*
"Omg is this picture of you!?!?"
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"lmaopic.jpg.exe"
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