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News: Iceland suffers it largest ever cyber-attack

16.Oct.2018
Martin Jartelius
Iceland fell victim to the largest phishing campaign to target the nation, a complex scheme which involved impersonating law enforcement officers.

Iceland fell victim to the largest phishing campaign to target the nation, a complex scheme which involved impersonating law enforcement officers.

The attack was tailored specifically for Icelanders and used a homograph trick to register a domain imitating the Icelandic Police domain and a malicious attachment file with which roughly translated to "Called in for questioning by the police on 30 October," according to Bleeping Computer.

In response to the news of a large-scale phishing attack targeting individuals in Iceland, please see below comments from Martin Jartelius, CSO of Outpost24:

 

SC media outpost24  Iceland's largest phishing campaign imitated police

 

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