Ready to be hit upon by the likes of Anna Chapman? MI5 in the UK warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organizations as a means of gaining privileged access to sensitive data.
Wow, the good old honeytrap seems to be alive and taking names. The UK security service's warning about spy-infiltration tactics is a bid to encourage corporations to bolster their defenses against such attacks, the Register reports.
However, the Register still reckons that phishing emails, custom malware and watering-hole attacks are a far more plausible tactic rather than the spy-grooming tactics mentioned by MI5. Darn, I was already thinking I might get lucky...:-D Link to article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/07/mi5_warning_foreign_spies_targeting_it_workers/
