Ubiquiti networks
This attack has been a common reference in the book as it is today used in many elaborations of the CEO scam. Ubiquiti networks found itself in an uncomfortable spot in 2015 after realizing that it had become a victim of social engineering and had lost $36 million to hackers. The California-based company that deals with the manufacturing of networking devices confirmed that it had become a victim of social engineering after its subsidiary company in Hong Kong was defrauded in an attack, best known as a CEO scam. The way this attack was carried out is of great interest to this chapter. The scam matches one of the IRS scams described as the business email compromise scam where low-level employees in organizations were being ...
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