Do you know your spear phishing and vishing from your whaling and clone phishing? We explain how to recognize each type of threat.
Every data breach and online attack seems to involve some kind of phishing attempt to steal password credentials, to launch fraudulent transactions, or to trick someone into downloading malware. In early 2018, 93 percent of phishing emails delivered ransomware, according to statistics from PhishMe.
- What is phishing?
- What is spear phishing?
- What is whaling?
- What is clone phishing?
- What is vishing?
- ….and many more
Organizations need to consider existing internal awareness campaigns and make sure employees are given the tools to recognize different types of attacks. Organizations also need to beef up security defenses, because some of the traditional email security tools — such as spam filters — are not enough defense against some phishing types. For example, spam filters are not useful against BEC attacks.
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