Attackers are ganging up on you in your email

Written By kerry tomlinson

What's better than an attacker sending you a poisoned email? A group of attackers sending you a poisoned email! At least that's the strategy of one set of cyber crooks on a spying mission.

They're trying out group emails where the other people copied in the message are also spies, as we show you in our latest episode of Cyber Tricks Revealed.

Here’s how it works.

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Story originally published on November 1, 2022.

See print version here at Ampyx News (formerly called Ampere News).

 

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