{"id":13861,"date":"2022-06-13T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.126.211.109\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2024-03-16T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:35:52","slug":"cyber-pill-spoofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberguru.it\/en\/2022\/06\/13\/cyber-pill-spoofing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Pill #25 \u2013 Spoofing: how to make a scam credible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this pill, we discuss a particularly dangerous cyber technique, spoofing. This scam is making the social engineering activities of cyber criminals increasingly sophisticated. With this technique, a cyber criminal assumes the previously stolen identity of someone we know. 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