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Phishing attacks targeting government agencies linked to Hacking Team breach

The FBI has issued a warning about an active phishing campaign targeting various government agencies in the U.S. The alert says phishing emails in July and those from June targeted an Adobe Flash vulnerability discovered in the leaked Hacking Team files. The FBI memo says the vulnerability being leveraged in the phishing attacks is CVE-2015-5119, otherwise known as the vulnerability in Adobe Flash that was made public after the company was breached earlier this month. Microsoft has patched the Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered by researchers within the leaked documents.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2948951/phishing-attacks-targeting-government-agencies-linked-to-hacking-team-breach.html

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