New Targeted E-mail Attack Hits Business Execs

Erik Larkin writes "The same scammers who have been sending out the faked but highly convincing BBB and IRS e-mails are now targeting named victims with a new variety of e-mail that looks like a business invoice. Our editor-in-chief was sent one here at PC World."

Comments

It's about time...

[eneville]

I think it would be wise for companies to switch to use something like GPG and keep keys safe. The sooner this happens the sooner scammers will have a more difficult job with this style of social engineering.

Good Thing?

[Bob9113]

At the risk of sounding a little jaded and anti-establishment (which would surely make me an outcast on this site, haha):

I think maybe this is a good thing. I think the scammers have been, to this point, largely targeting the gullible. Old people, drug abusers, the socially awkward. The problem with that is those sections of our society are, I would guess, significantly underrepresented in the political process.

If the friends and contributors of our ruling elite class start getting tagged, perhaps we will see some Internet legislation that is focused on taking out the really vile scum, instead of just the low grade malefactors that infringe copyright for personal use. Copyright legislation is going gangbusters because the people Congress talks to believe it is good. If those same people start to feel the bite of scammers, maybe they'll get serious about finding these assholes and putting them away.