With the huge increase in online shopping and deliveries over the past couple of years, these have become one of the favourite attack vectors for cyber criminals. Usually it is some type of impersonation/social engineering attack via email, with the intention to steal sensitive information from you.
Just be very aware this happens and double check before sharing any information via and email or link in an email, when it is related to a delivery.
Why the reminder today – the SANS Internet Storm Diary has an example of such an attack that is in the wild at this very moment:
DHL Spear Phishing to Capture Username/Password – SANS Internet Storm Centre
My forth coming Master Class has a section that will be dealing with these types of attacks with particular reference on how businesses should defend against them.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
