Security News > 2019 > August > US utilities targeted with spear-phishing emails impersonating engineering licensing board

If you worked in a US company in the utilities sector and received an email notification telling you that you’ve failed your “Fundamentals of Engineering” NCEES exam, would you download the attached Word file to check what’s up? Would you do it even if you know that you took no such exam? Would you tell yourself that maybe forgot to take it, maybe this was the notice that tells you that you forgot to take … More → The post US utilities targeted with spear-phishing emails impersonating engineering licensing board appeared first on Help Net Security.
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