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1 day agoZipLine cyber attack uses White House butler pic
Instead of emailing a malicious link in an unsolicited email, the miscreants initiate contact through the organization's public Contact Us form, tricking the victim into starting the conversation and allowing the attackers to bypass email filters, according to Check Point Research, which uncovered the phishing campaign and dubbed it ZipLine. The attackers followed up via email with a series questions stretched over weeks and a meeting request before finally delivering a ZIP archive that ultimately deploys MixShell, a custom, in-memory implant.
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