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US Utilities Hit with Phishing Attack

A new phishing attack is hitting US utilities with threats that their engineers could be in danger of losing their professional licenses. The only danger comes from panicked employees clicking on the embedded Word document and infecting their computers with a remote access Trojan (RAT) and command-and-control proxy. Researchers at Proofpoint found that the LookBack malware and many of the macros used in the campaign look very similar to tools used in a 2018 campaign against Japanese businesses. They do not, however, identify the nation responsible.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/us-utilities-hit-with-phishing-attack

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