Graham Cluley provides another example of a former employee going rogue and harming their former employer:
Once again companies are being warned to be wary of past employees who may turn rogue.
28-year-old Andrew Mahn, of Derry, New Hampshire, has pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally hacked the network of his former company, telecoms firm Motorola, after he successfully tricked current staff into handing over their login credentials
Mahn, who had previously worked for Motorola as a RF Network Field Service Technician, was working at the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) in August 2020 when he began to send phishing emails to a total of 31 current Motorola employees.
The email told recipients that there was a “task awaiting approval” on what purported to be Motorola’s payroll website. However, anyone who followed the instructions to click on the link and enter their username and password were actually sharing their login credentials with Mahn.
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