April 30, 2020
In the last few months, multiple groups of hackers successfully compromised corporate email accounts of at least 156 high-ranking employees at various firms in Germany, the UK, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dubbed ‘PerSwaysion,’ this latest cyberattack campaign leveraged Microsoft file-sharing services—including Sway, SharePoint, and OneNote—to launch highly targeted phishing attacks. According to a report Group-IB Threat Intelligence team, PerSwaysion operations attacked executives of more than 150 companies around the world.
This is just one of many, many examples of how you can get scammed via email.