Porthos
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- San Antonio Tx
Scammers have tried to rip off computer equipment suppliers with a targeted email that impersonated the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
They did their homework and crafted a credible message with details that would check out at a cursory search.
Diligent attacker
In a short email sent to a company’s sales department, the fraudsters requested a price quote for 20 touchscreen laptops and 200 portable hard drives.
The sender’s email impersonated John William Hellerstedt, the acting Commissioner of Texas DSHS since January 2016, and appears to come from the legitimate domain of the agency, according to Abnormal Security, a company providing email protection.
However, they listed a different email address in the ‘reply-to’ field, from a domain pretending to belong to the City of New York and registered two months ago.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...d-in-department-of-state-health-rfq-phishing/
They did their homework and crafted a credible message with details that would check out at a cursory search.
Diligent attacker
In a short email sent to a company’s sales department, the fraudsters requested a price quote for 20 touchscreen laptops and 200 portable hard drives.
The sender’s email impersonated John William Hellerstedt, the acting Commissioner of Texas DSHS since January 2016, and appears to come from the legitimate domain of the agency, according to Abnormal Security, a company providing email protection.
However, they listed a different email address in the ‘reply-to’ field, from a domain pretending to belong to the City of New York and registered two months ago.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...d-in-department-of-state-health-rfq-phishing/
