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- The scam's objective, which seems to have affected both government and private organizations, was to dupe victims into paying the con artists money. It wasn't known if the federal personnel experienced it.
- The episodes highlight how, like ordinary people, federal officials can be tricked into revealing sensitive financial information, and that they might not become aware of it for weeks or months afterward.According to the alert, CISA only became aware of the activities in October 2022, but the hackers had been targeting official and personal email accounts of federal employees since at least June.
- In addition to the two initial agency victims, forensic examination identified related activity on numerous other federal networks, according to the adviceWhile it appears that financially driven criminals were behind this attack, US officials expressed fear that such hackers would sell stolen data to spies supported by the government. According to investigators, the real tech-support software used in the scam is helpful for hackers trying to keep covert, long-term access to a network.
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