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Madison Square Garden employees received a late-September email claiming 'your Employee Championship Ring is here,' asking them to click a link and pick from two ring designs, according to The New York Times. Employees who clicked were required to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class, team sources told the Times, as owner James Dolan has grown increasingly concerned about cybersecurity.
Security researchers describe a growing cybercriminal tactic of targeting executives' family members and friends, who often lack the security training given to leadership, to gain backdoor access into corporate systems. Google Cloud's Office of the CISO warned in March that personal attacks against executives are rising, and BlackCloak's Brian Hill notes attackers can map a household's routines and relationships through reconnaissance before pivoting to impersonation, device compromise, or phishing.