Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?
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For threat actors, phishing embodies the holy trinity of goals: easy, effective and profitable. It’s no wonder that the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reports that phishing was the top method used by attackers to breach an organization. Of all the attacks that X-Force remediated in 2021, attackers used phishing in 41% of them. Because […]
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Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?
Spear phishing, whaling and barrel phishing are all part of attackers' toolkits for tricking people into sharing information. See how to stop them.
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