A simple Facebook impersonation attack was used to tempt personal data from military and government associates of NATO's supreme
Commander James Stavridis, news sources have reported.
Despite NATO staff having been warned about fake Facebook pages in the past, The Daily Telegraph reports that "senior British military officers and Ministry of Defence officials" were among those temporarily fooled by 'friend' requests from the fake Stavridis page that appeared earlier this year.
The attackers will not have gained any vital information from this attack beyond a few phone numbers and a list if gullible and now embarrassed individuals worth targetting in their own right.
For the record, Admiral Stavridis does not have a Facebook page, nor would it be appropriate for a man with the job of heading the world's most powerful military appliance to sign up for such a service in a professional capacity.
As with almost every other cyberattack with a geo-political dimension, the fake page attack is being pinned on Chinese intelligence although the level of sophistication required to create a bogus page would be open to anyone.
More @ networkworld.com/news/2012/031312-nato-commander-targeted-by-fake-257215.html
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