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Posing as prominent US artificial intelligence experts, suspected Chinese hackers launched a targeted phishing campaign aimed at policy researchers, academics and former government officials.
Summary
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint says the operation sought intelligence on AI regulation, export controls and national strategy, highlighting growing geopolitical competition over artificial intelligence.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Phishing and credential-based attacks succeed because they target people, not just infrastructure, technical controls like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC only ever close part of that gap. The rest comes down to whether a team can actually spot the fake, and whether a compromised credential can still be reused anywhere else.
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