Politico: Foreign governments have been trying to hack the messaging accounts of high-ranking European Union officials, the bloc’s cyber defense unit said in an internal presentation obtained by POLITICO.
…The officials were the targets of so-called “state-sponsored spearphishing,” the presentation said, a term for state-backed, targeted and bespoke campaigns to get specific people to click on dodgy links or open malicious attachments. Hackers used “social engineering techniques” to trick EU officials, crafting personalized messages that were more likely to get targets to take the bait…