KnowBe4 - Phishing for Student Email Accounts

University student accounts are being exploited for business email compromise. Researchers at Avanan have observed a rise in attacks that compromise legitimate college student accounts in order to carry out business email compromise (BEC) attacks. “In this attack,” the researchers say, “hackers are compromising student accounts to launch broader BEC and credential harvesting attacks.”



from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/phishing-for-student-email-accounts

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