Articles in « Spear Phishing »

New in Vade Secure for Microsoft 365, our spear phishing engine now classifies spear phishing emails according to threat typology. This latest update to our spear phishing technology features a combination of Natural Language Proc[...]

Unlike other types of email threats, BEC (business email compromise) emails typically feature only a few lines of text, with no URLs, attached files, or other scannable elements. As a result, email security vendors have turned to [...]

Email spoofing is a technique for forging an email header to trick recipients into believing a sender is a familiar brand or acquaintance. It’s a critical element of both phishing and spear phishing attacks that can be extremely d[...]

Business Email Compromise or BEC presents a radically more sophisticated version of the age-old “Nigerian Prince” scam. According to the FBI, US businesses lost $1.7 billion from business email compromise in 2019. This figure repr[...]

CEO fraud is a type of spear phishing attack in which a hacker impersonates a CEO via email and persuades a victim to perform a transaction, typically financial. One of the costliest email attacks, CEO fraud is a form of business [...]

Pretexting is a form of social engineering used to manipulate victims into divulging sensitive information. Hackers often research their victims in advance of their first conversation. This gives the hacker a sense of the victim’s[...]