The Worst Is Yet to Come
While things may seem bad, the worst is still to come, with the attackers likely having left backdoors open to return later, said Adrien Gendre, Vade Secure’s chief product and services officer.
“Based on our knowledge of prior incidents, parties affected can expect to see a rise in spear phishing attacks in the coming weeks, all of which will be highly qualitative with proper context and potentially contain history of past email conversations to lend credibility to the scams,” he said. “For example, the year that Dejardins Bank experienced a data leak of 2.9 million records that were published on the dark web, Vade detected a spike in unique phishing URLs from 255 the previous year to 4,540, an unheard of 1,680.4% increase.”
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