{"id":15535,"date":"2024-08-14T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/russia-launching-more-sophisticated-phishing-attacks-new-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:40:18","slug":"russia-launching-more-sophisticated-phishing-attacks-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/russia-launching-more-sophisticated-phishing-attacks-new-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launching more sophisticated phishing attacks, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies and technical aspects<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s state security agency is launching increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks against US, European and Russian civil society members, in some cases by impersonating individuals who are personally close to the targets of the attacks, according to a new investigation by security researchers.<\/p>\n<p>A new report by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessnow.org\/russian-phishing-technical-brief\">Access Now<\/a> comes as the FBI has separately launched an investigation into suspected hacking attempts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/roger-stone-email-hack-iran-trump\">Iran targeting an adviser to Donald Trump<\/a> and advisers to the Harris-Walz campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/russia-phishing-hacking-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fbf919fdd0d26c15b4df1ca68f5db837db3e37ee\/0_0_4569_2741\/master\/4569.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ebb5841eb68413e78987522983fd076a\" title=\"Russia launching more sophisticated phishing attacks, new report finds\" \/>State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies and technical aspects<br \/>\nRussia\u2019s state security agency is launching increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks against US, European and Russian civil society members, in some cases by impersonating individuals who are personally close to the targets of the attacks, according to a new investigation by security researchers.<br \/>\nA new report by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and Access Now comes as the FBI has separately launched an investigation into suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting an adviser to Donald Trump and advisers to the Harris-Walz campaign. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies and technical aspects Russia\u2019s state security agency is launching increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks against US, European and Russian civil society members, in some cases by impersonating individuals who are personally close to the targets of the attacks, according to a new investigation by security researchers. A &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/russia-launching-more-sophisticated-phishing-attacks-new-report-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia launching more sophisticated phishing attacks, new report finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}