Spearphishing campaign targets the energy industry
A new spear phishing campaign tries to inject malware into energy companies and their suppliers with cleverly forged e-mails, which are then used to spy out access data. Energy, oil and gas companies and other companies from related industries are currently the focus of a sophisticated phishing campaign, as reported by cybersecurity company Intezer. The campaign, which has been active for at least a year, is intended to smuggle malware into the company's networks, which then spies out user names, passwords and other sensitive information and forwards them to the criminal backers. According to Intezer's security experts, the current cases could be the first ...