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Adversarial use of current events as lures

Talos: The goal of malicious activity is to compromise the system to install some unauthorized software. Increasingly that goal is tied to one thing: the user. In today’s threat landscape, adversaries are always trying to develop and implement the most effective lures to try and draw users into their infection path. The lures tied to events as they happen are difficult to anticipate, but security organizations need to have procedures in place to handle these shifts, ideally flexing the list of words and events used in hunting based on current events.”]

Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/07/current-events-lures.html

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