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Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing with a Russian Nexus (citizenlab.org)
39 points by ryanlol on May 27, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> The phishing email is designed to trick the recipient into clicking on the ‘Change Password’ button. Clicking on this link would direct the victim’s web browser to a link hosted on the URL shortening service Tiny.cc

Truly amazing hacking skills we see here.


Don't play dumb — it rarely works out in your favor. Why would you expect anybody to burn 0-days when all they want is access to an email account?


Sorry, my KGB handler told me to play dumb.




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