Report: Genuine HR emails trigger suspicions after accidentally using common phishing tricks

guest · Nov 19, 2019

Report: Genuine HR emails trigger suspicions after accidentally using common phishing tricks
November 19, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...er-accidentally-using-common-phishing-tricks/

It’s one thing for employees to receive a phishing email that is purposefully crafted or spoofed to look like a genuine online communication. But when happens when people receive an actual, legitimate email that accidentally looks like a phishing scam?

According to a report from TechCrunch, this exact scenario took place last week when cloud-based HR solutions provider TriNet sent out a phishy-looking email to remote employees working for one of its corporate clients – a Los Angeles-based health startup.
Multiple irregularities were observed, [...]

TriNet spokesperson Renee Brotherton confirmed to TechCrunch that the emails were genuine and that they linked to a third-party site belonging to labor law poster solutions provider Poster Elite. “The Imgur image you reference is an image of the TriNet logo that Poster Elite mistakenly pointed to and it has since been removed,” Brotherton said.

Social engineer Rachel Tobac, founder of SocialProof Security, told TechCrunch that “When companies communicate with customers in ways that are similar to the way scammers communicate, it can weaken their customer’s ability over time to spot and shut down security threats in future communications.”
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TechCrunch: TriNet sent remote workers an email that some thought was a phishing attack

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