Politico reported:
LONDON — A serving government minister is among 12 men now known to have been targeted in a suspected "honey trap" scandal enveloping Westminster politics.
Dominik Wojtczak, head of the Cybersecurity Institute at the University of Liverpool, said he believed the messages were part of a “spear phishing attack” — a highly personalized form of “phishing,” meaning to gather compromising information on a victim.
“The purpose is most likely to simply obtain indecent images of the victims and then blackmail them,” Wojtczak said.
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LONDON — A serving government minister is among 12 men now known to have been targeted in a suspected "honey trap" scandal enveloping Westminster politics.
Dominik Wojtczak, head of the Cybersecurity Institute at the University of Liverpool, said he believed the messages were part of a “spear phishing attack” — a highly personalized form of “phishing,” meaning to gather compromising information on a victim.
“The purpose is most likely to simply obtain indecent images of the victims and then blackmail them,” Wojtczak said.
Find the original article and read more here.
Enroll in Training Sessions: Last Thursday of Every Month is Training on Frauds and New Scam Alerts and How to Combat