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Personal information obtained through unauthorized access to Denmark’s CPR register could help criminals create more convincing phishing attacks, a cybersecurity expert said.
Summary
Names, addresses, identification numbers and birth dates can be used to make fraudulent emails and text messages appear to come from authorities, Aarhus University professor Jens Myrup Pedersen said.
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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