Installing a Keylogger
From Blackhat
00:00 - 01:06
1m 6s

A hacker sends a company employee a fraudulent email prompting him to change his password. The employee downloads a PDF, which is a keylogger posing as password security guidelines. Once the keylogger has been downloaded, the hacker gets the employee's credentials and logs into the system.

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