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Special Olympics New York Hacked to Send Phishing Emails

Special Olympics of New York had its email server hacked around this year’s Christmas holiday and used to launch a phishing campaign against previous donors. The phishing emails delivered by the attackers was camouflaged as an alert of an impending donation transaction that would automatically debit $1,942,49 from the target’s account within two hours. Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics staff also issued a warning alerting of a phish campaign that delivered emails designed to look like coming from the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/special-olympics-new-york-hacked-to-send-phishing-emails/

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