Researchers at Context Information Security warn that watering hole cyber attacks are increasingly being used by state sponsored hackers to compromise large target groups within the same industries. Rather than chasing victims with spear phishing techniques, attackers compromise popular trusted websites to trap visitors and infect their machines with malware.
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