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Its sophisticated in the sense it sounds targeted. They had to do research, setup a clone of an internal site, etc. That's on the high end of sophistication for phishing, which in general is usually not the most sophisticated of attacks.



Yep, but targeted doesn't have the same meaning as sophisticated, maybe the sophistication relates to obtaining a list of reddit employees, in that sense the sophistication is before and besides the phishing in itself.




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