Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

By Chris Brook   August 21, 2017
 

 A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association.
 
The researchers—Grant Ho, University of California, Berkeley; Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mobin Javed, University of California, Berkeley; Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute; and David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley—presented a paper, “Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings,” (.PDF) last week at the 26th USENIX Security Symposium, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
 
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