Incidents of Spear Phishing As we have reviewed, Spear Phishing, is quite different than the normal Phishing attack. In these cases, the Cyber attacker just merely launches an all-out attack, in the hopes of being able to harvest sensitive information and data. In these cases, typically, a hijacked e-mail address book (or even many of them) ...
What the Spear Phisher is After Our last blog examined what a Spear Phishing attack is. In today’s blog, we examine what the primary targets are: 1. Money, Money, Money and lots of it: While other Phishing based campaigns focus on getting any kind of personal information and data, the Cyber attacker in this case, wants just one ...
Introduction to Spear Phishing As we know it today, Phishing has become one of the most commonly used tactics by the Cyber attacker in order to garner personal information and data. This primarily involves our physical addresses, E-Mail addresses, credit card numbers, banking and other types and kinds of financial information, Social Security numbers, etc. Phishing involves ...
Introduction Our last blog examined the steps that you need to take in order to recover from a Phishing attack. In this one, we can continue with that theme. The Steps Remediation: This is deemed to be one of the most critical phases; as this is where the damage of the Phishing attack will be contained. This ...
Introduction Our last series of blogs closely examined the details of a Spear Phishing Attack. But whoever or whatever the target is, once the damage is done, efforts need to be taken to mitigate the damage, and try to find ways so that these types of attacks don’t happen again. In this series of blogs, we examine ...
Email Phishing scams are carried out online by tech-savvy con artists and identity theft criminals. They use spam, fake websites constructed to look identical to real sites, email and instant messages to trick you into divulging sensitive information, like bank account passwords and credit card numbers. Once you take the phisher's bait, they can use ...
