Activists Targeted In Years Long Spear Phishing Campaign

Robert Falcone and Jen Miller-Osborn of Palo Alto Networks have published a write up on the Scarlet Mimic series of attacks carried out against various activist groups (archived). This campaign carried out over at least four years largely against Tibetian and Uyghur activists is another reminder of the serious danger presented by small scale social engineering efforts like spear phishing, which demand different mitigation and risk reduction strategies than macro scale social engineering attacks.

3 thoughts on “Activists Targeted In Years Long Spear Phishing Campaign

  1. s/Tibetian and Uyghur activists/USG fifth column in China/

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