Category: Threats

The New York Times reported last week that spear phishing attacks have escalated recently targeting nuclear power plants, utilities and manufacturers. The article focused specifically on the threat to nuclear facilities where “spear phishing” was the common cyber attack technique. Hackers wrote highly targeted email messages containing fake résumés for control engineering jobs and sent […]

Three years ago, Martin Engineering IT Manager Mike Komnick started to see a rise in spear phishing emails. They were supposedly from the CEO and sought to initiate wire transfers. One was even in process, but thankfully, canceled before completion. Then, two years ago, a ransomware attack was successfully delivered through a social engineering email. […]