Spear Phishing

Spear-phishing is a type of phishing attack that uses malicious emails to target specific individuals or organizations. The goal of spear phishing is to steal sensitive information like login credentials or infect the target’s device with malware.

Because it targets a specific victim, spear phishing necessitates more thought and time than phishing. Spear phishing hackers work hard to gather as much personal information about their victims as possible in order to impersonate trusted contacts and make their spoofed emails appear legitimate and highly targeted.

It will frequently avoid using malware in favor of credential theft and other malware-free methods. Because of this, as well as the level of customization involved, spear phishing can be more difficult to detect than large-scale phishing attacks. The following are some spear phishing techniques used by various organizations to manage security.

Business Email Compromise:
Business Email Compromise is an attack in which an attacker gains access to a business email account and impersonates the owner’s identity in order to defraud the company and its employees and customers.

Whaling:
Whaling attacks are tailored to their intended target and employ the same social engineering, email spoofing, and content spoofing techniques to gain access to and steal sensitive information.

Clone Phishing:
Clone phishing is the practice of hackers creating a nearly identical replica of a legitimate message in order to fool the victim into thinking it is genuine. These attacks frequently use cloned websites with a spoofed domain that looks exactly like a legitimate one in order to trick the victim into providing sensitive information.