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Cyberhack: USB Danger

'The Weirdest Trend in Cybersecurity': Nation-States Returning to USBs (.darkreading.com)

"Recently, we worked with a power company where one of the employees received an Amazon box, with Amazon tape," Daniel Wiley, Check Point head of threat management, recalled at a Wednesday presser. "Inside there was a sealed SanDisk USB — completely brand new. He thought his wife ordered it. So he opened it up, plugged it in.

Everything

else was a

chain reaction.

It was able to break in across their VPN. Let's just say the power company was not in a good place."

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Vishing

Don't Answer the Phone: Inside a Real-Life Vishing Attack (darkreading.com)
vishing, or voice-phishing campaign
"Experts say it doesn't matter how much expertise you have in knowing the tactics attackers use or experience in spotting scams. The key to the attackers' success is something older than technology, as it lies in manipulating the very thing that makes us human: our emotions."