"Malware Peddlers Love This One Social Engineering Trick"

Proofpoint researchers warn of a clever social engineering method to deliver malware. A social engineering technique rising in popularity among threat actors is the use of the fake error messages, displayed by a website or when opening an HTML document delivered as an email attachment. The attack chain requires significant user interaction, but the researchers noted that the social engineering method can present a user with what appears to be a real problem and solution at the same time, prompting them to act without considering the risk. This article continues to discuss observations regarding the clever social engineering technique.

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