Spear phishing can be especially hard to detect because the messages are so tailored to you and your organization—assuming the attackers have done the work to make the email sufficiently believable.

Moreover, by exploiting recent or urgent work matters, attackers can effectively prompt quick action from the target, bypassing normal security skepticism. Prevention of Spear Phishing Attacks ...

The group uses legitimate messaging services and job platforms to apply for real jobs using fake malicious resumés that drop ...

"Spear-phishing works because the spam is so targeted that recipients feel obligated to act," said Boris Yanobsky, SonicWALL's VP of engineering. "We predict these types of attacks will increase ...

Spear phishing remains the most common way for adversaries ... a supply chain get compromised since the typical business works with between 50 and 100 other businesses, Mandia said.

“Spear-phishing”—a cyberscam in which a target is induced to reveal confidential information or transfer money by a hacker impersonating, via email, someone the target knows—is a growing ...

Spear-phishing' is a sub-type of 'phishing', which ... Sharing things like where we work, where we've been on holiday or the fact we've just bough a new car might seem pretty harmless, but ...

Infamous Russian-linked threat actor Midnight Blizzard has been targeting US officials with spear phishing attacks across a range of government and non-government sectors, new research has claimed..