Spoofed White House Card Dupes Many Gov't Employees, Steals Data 173
tsu doh nimh writes "A run-of-the-mill malware-laced e-mail that spoofed seasons greetings from The White House siphoned gigabytes of sensitive documents from dozens of victims over the holidays, including a number of government employees and contractors who work on cybersecurity matters, writes krebsonsecurity.com. The story looks at several victims who fell for the attack, and suggests it may be related to a series of similar document-harvesting runs throughout 2010. Government security vendor NetWitness notes that these types of incidents are blurring the lines between online financial fraud and espionage attacks."
What do they earn? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd love to see a salary list of all the morons that fell for this. I'm sure most make pretty solid money, yet are too stupid or gullible to see these obvious scams for what they are. Fucking pathetic. God bless america!