{"id":199715,"date":"2007-07-03T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/03\/senior-execs-targeted-in-precision-malware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:16:00","slug":"senior-execs-targeted-in-precision-malware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/03\/senior-execs-targeted-in-precision-malware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior execs targeted in &#8216;precision&#8217; malware attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evil techno geeks vs. evil MBAs.  Hopefully, there is a way for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BOTH<\/span> of them to lose.<\/p>\n<p>This is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> smart on the part of the scammers.  Most exploits are found because they are millions of copies floating around the web.  In this case, they might not be found until well after the criminals have put a few million bucks in Zurich.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/02\/personal_malware\/\">Senior execs targeted in &#8216;precision&#8217; malware attacks<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">By John Leyden<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Published Monday 2nd July 2007 12:36 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Hackers are targeting senior managers of large firms &#8211; along with members of their families &#8211; in a new wave of highly-focused email attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">On 26 June, net security services firm MessageLabs intercepted more than 500 individual email attacks targeted against individuals in senior management positions. The attack email often featured the name and job title of the intended victim in their subject lines. Chief investment officers accounted for 30 per cent of the attacks, 11 per cent were directed against chief executives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Other job titles among the top 10 targets included chief information officers, chief financial officers, directors of research, directors of development, and company presidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;..<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil techno geeks vs. evil MBAs. Hopefully, there is a way for BOTH of them to lose. This is very smart on the part of the scammers. Most exploits are found because they are millions of copies floating around the web. In this case, they might not be found until well after the criminals have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1052,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-crimes","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}