I think there is minimal value in publishing, as the description is sufficient to let defenders know what the threat is, but publication is a roadmap to delivering a much-higher-than-baseline effective phishing email. Will send a copy to Superhuman if they ask for it.
@patio11
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Sophisticated Email Attack Exploits Specific Software Configuration
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(Yeah after investigating via a different client it's very obviously an attack, but goodness, there is a lot going on here and it's good enough to get inboxed and look very plausible given a specific configuration of software that the targets of this email very plausibly have.)
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Superhuman Client Quirks Exploitation Issues
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It is difficult to tell whether that is happening because, again, what appears to be exploitation of Superhuman client quirks.
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MSA Email Provider Phishing Attack URL Spoofing Threat
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The named vendor is an MSA (email provider) that many, many founders will have an account with and the flavor text is update-your-credit-card, which many marks will immediately action because trusted vendor and appearance of an HTTPS link. I think they're doing some URL spoofing.
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Sophisticated cyberattacks targeting startup founders escalate
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Bad Guys doing Bad Guy things, film at 11. Bad Guys doing impressively well executed Bad Guy things targeting startup founders specifically: felt like worth mentioning explicitly.
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Phishing Alert: Superhuman Email Scam Targets Startup Founders
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PSA: there is a very good email, which I feel is unlikely to be legitimate, that targets quirks in Superhuman and an economic arrangement with a startup-adjacent vendor that very many founders are likely to have, attempting to get one to click on a link.
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Google Search’s Magic Money Printer: Wasteful Spending and Institutional Challenges
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This isn’t entirely a one-note story. Search was so good that it awarded Google a magic money printer, and not all of the money printed was spent wisely, and the institution suffered many of the games you’d expect the owner of a magic money printer to suffer.
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Google Search’s Capitalism: Twenty Years of Service and Ad Delivery Critique
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There are many reasons to kvetch about that stupid chestnut re: ad delivery, but the biggest one is that Google delivered Google Search to the world, for twenty years, and that act was one of capitalism’s greatest single services to humanity.
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Continuous Great Works Production Model for Talent Retention
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One of the upsides to reconfiguring the world such that one needs to continuously bid for the time and attention of smart people, as opposed to identifying them early and then locking them down for life, is you need to produce and sell Great Works continuously or you can’t afford
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SaaS Value Proposition: Understanding As-a-Service Business Models
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The bundle of goods companies are buying expressed by the words “as a Service” is a complicated one and is *not a small part of the SaaS value proposition.*