Report: Hackers use simple trick to target U.S. presidential campaign and government officials

Hacking email accounts doesn’t have to be a sophisticated affair.

We are reminded once again of this fact thanks to a report released Friday by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center detailing how a group of hackers targeted the email accounts of journalists, government officials, and the campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate. And here’s the thing, the bad actors didn’t use some fancy 1337 computer skills, but rather employed the oldest trick in the book: the password reset.

Source : https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-hack-presidential-campaign/

Date : October 4, 2019 at 08:26PM

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