What’s going on?
Spear-phishing can be described as a more sophisticated kind of phishing techniques. More precisely, it is an attack where fraudulent messages are sent to specific persons or a group of persons to obtain personal or sensitive information. This week, the Cyber Security Team of Masaryk University recorded a wave of spear-phishing e-mails that include the following notification in their message: "You have an important security warning regarding the 2022 salary schedule." An almost identical wave also took place in 2020. Under this notification, the attackers attach a link that, when clicked, redirects the user to a phishing form with the visual style of the Masaryk University Information System. Therefore, in this case, the attackers' goal is to obtain login data to this system.