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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. This particular attack came to our attention because it combines so many interesting tactics that have been used to cloak the attack and it's

pretty notable in the sense that it's using the infrastructure of the provider itself that it's impersonating.

That's Robert Duncan, VP of Product Strategy at Netcraft.

The research we're discussing today is titled Fishception

Send Grid Abused to host fishing attacks impersonating itself. And that's a very effective tactic because it makes it really difficult for a victim to tell the difference between a message that they've received or an email that doesn't really originate with that provider but by all intents and purposes or by all intents and purposes, or for all intensive

purposes, that is indistinguishable.

It's really how to tell the difference between the real and the fake, and we walk through this particular attack.

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