New Phishing Attacks Targeting Professors and Writers in the Middle East

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Writers and professors from the Middle East have been targeted by a phishing campaign carried out by cyber criminals using SpoofedScholars, according to a new Proofpoint report. The attack employs a University of London website to steal data from targeted individuals, says Tech Republic. 

The School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London has over 5,200 undergraduate and postgraduate students on campus, as well as almost 300 lecturers who specialize in the study of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. After infiltrating the radio station’s website, a malicious group was able to develop a credential harvesting page masqueradi…

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