Sentences with phrase «through phishing campaigns»

Kim Byung - kee, a member of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee, said this week that North Korea stole cryptocurrency worth billions of South Korean Won (millions in U.S. dollars) over the course of the last year, mostly stolen through phishing campaigns.

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Phishing campaigns usually rely on emails sent through social engineering or en masse, including «official» messages bound for particular businesses — and in this case, exchanges — and may also utilize spoofed email addresses to appear legitimate.

North Korea continued to target South Korea through late 2017 with a spear phishing campaign against both cryptocurrency users and exchanges, as well as South Korean college students interested in foreign affairs.

It appears a new Bittrex phishing site is making inroads these days, which tries to attract users through a phishing email campaign.