Phishing Diplomacy
Unremarkable truths revealed about cyber campaigns
Unremarkable truths revealed about cyber campaigns
In this Security Research Report, learn how a massive government cyberbreach began with phishing.
Arguably, diplomatic communications are a sovereign state’s most sensitive, protected information. However, threat actors target and breach even a heavily secured diplomatic correspondence network with alarming success to steal data and intellectual property—just as they target private businesses and organizations.This report details how Chinese state-sponsored threat actors used seemingly unremarkable, but highly effective, cyber campaigns resembling attack methods used on businesses and organizations, to breach EU diplomatic communications.
At the heart of this series of attacks are three key facts:
Detect. Disrupt. Defeat.