Overview#

Spear-Phishing is Phishing usually related to emails.Spear-Phishingm generally, is where general email attacks use spam-like tactics to blast thousands at a time, Spear-Phishing is a Targeted Attack to specific individuals within an Organizational Entity. In this type of scam, hackers customize their emails with the target’s name, title, work phone number, and other information in order to trick the recipient into believing that the sender somehow knows them personally or professionally. Spear phishing is for organizations with the resources to research and implement this more sophisticated form of attack.

Spear-Phishing typically provides a convincing email from a Organizational Entity or even a Government Entity insisting that you click on a URL (link) that is often fraudulent.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Phishing

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• [#1] - !!! What is Phishing? - based on information obtained 2021-07-21