While spear phishing is a highly effective method for cyber criminals to maliciously obtain personal information, steal money, and hack organizations, there are ways for businesses and people alike to defend themselves from these attacks. For example, tools like antivirus software, malware detection,...
In subject area: Computer Science A Spear Phishing attack refers to a targeted and well-planned form of cyber attack that focuses on specific individuals, such as influential people or government officials. The attacker gathers information about their target from social networks and social media, all...
organisation or a business group (Hong, 2012). Spear phishing is effective as 70% of the users open these emails, and within an hour of receipt, 50% of them click on the link contained in the email (FireEye, 2017). In this attack, message appears to come from well known organisations...