Truth 4 Spear phishing
By now, you know the basics of phishing. What you don’t know, I’m betting, is that identity thieves routinely target employees of organizations that offer online services such as Web mail, virtual private networks (VPNs), or online banking. Since employees often carry the keys to the kingdom, identity thieves often attempt to go right to the source. The premise is still the same; send an email to an individual, and get that person to follow a link where he will submit confidential information into an online application. The difference is that when I go after the employees, I am using what some refer to as spear phishing.
Spear phishing is when you target a specific victim instead of setting an all-purpose trap for any ...
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