UK Critical Structures Targeted by Trojan Attacks

ElGanzoLoco writes "The UK's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre is reporting that key british infrastructures (government, telecom, transports, banks among others) are under attack by specific, targeted e-mail trojans. According to their report (PDF), 'the emails use social engineering to appear credible, with subject lines often referring to news articles that would be of interest to the recipient. In fact they are "spoofed", making them appear to originate from trusted contacts, news agencies or Government departments.'. The attackers are apparently trying to gather sensitive or secret data. While the NISCC has not been able to precisely trace the attacks' origins, most IPs seem to trace back to Far-East Asia."

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[Kelbear]

Shall I be the first to hail our new "Far-Eastern" overlords?

This is fucking retarded.

[t_allardyce]

There's no way this could work without shear stupidity - are they using Outlook? is it running scripts? are they opening executable attachments? For fucks sake, why is my tax money being wasted when it clearly needs to be spent, today, on some 30 minute training, to educate government computer users on some very simple and very effective ways of defeating this sort of crap. This country used to be run like clockwork, its going down the drain.