At Education Department, a whale of a phishing expedition

Federal Times: At first glance, the email must have jumped out as urgent to the senior Education Department staff who received it.

The message came from arne.duncan[at]ymail.com, containing the name of Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

But once someone in the department’s senior staff, perhaps several recipients, opened the email, they clicked a link that contained malware stored on another server.

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