Millions of US government and military e-mail addresses offered for sale
It appears that cyber criminals are offering millions of harvested US government and US military e-mail addresses for sale.
Security researcher Dancho Danchev has profiled a particularly interesting underground service that offers segmented databases of harvested e-mails broken down by country or multiple gTLDs which would allow for better spam campaign targeting and attacks.
He also points out that the segmented databases could be used for launching targeted attacks against a particular country, which in combination with localisation (the translation of spam into a natives speaker's language) or event-based social engineering attacks, could increase the possibility for successful interaction. In respect to targeted malware attacks, the service is currently offering 2,462,935 US government e-mail addresses and another 2,178,000 U.S. military addresses for prospective buyers to choose from.
