back to article Silver-tongued phish bait lures execs, hooks M&A deals

A hacking group has been stealing identity information and reading emails to get the inside edge on stock markets to buy and sell to make quick profits. Vendor FireEye reckons the group sent articulate phishing emails with malicious attachments demonstrating "deep" knowledge of financial markets and corporate communications. …

  1. Haro

    Sony, too

    This would have been a great way to get to Sony, change the email to say "Your stuff stinks." :)

    1. Fatman

      Re: Sony, too

      This would have been a great way to get to Sony,

      RIGHT!!!!!

      I had a good laugh at their 'spinning' their incompetence in securing their systems into a hack by the Norks.

      Hey Sony, Karma is such a bitch!!

      BTW, didn't one of your label's artists have a song titled Karma (Alicia Keys, IIRC Here, take a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUMC_raxpSc ).

      No good deed goes unpunished!

  2. channel extended
    Unhappy

    Another Visual Basic Fail!

    If MS would only turn off all of the auto run features, half or more of the virus and worms would just die.

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