Home > Resources > Infographics > Sophisticated spear phishing attacks becoming more common

Sophisticated spear phishing attacks becoming more common

February 10, 2016

Spear phishers continue to pierce even well-defended networks, causing grave financial wounds. Spear phishers lure a specific individual to click on a viral email attachment or to navigate to a corrupted Web page. Malicious code typically gets embedded on the victim’s computing device, giving control to the attacker.

Spotlight

Core Security

Core Security provides the industry’s first comprehensive attack intelligence platform. With Core Security, enterprises and security professionals can focus on the most likely threats to their critical business assets by modeling, simulating and testing what an actual attacker would do. Core Security helps more than 1,000 customers worldwide identify the most vulnerable areas of their IT environments to improve the effectiveness of remediation efforts and ultimately secure the business. Our patented, proven, award-winning enterprise products and solutions are backed by more than 15 years of applied expertise from CoreLabs research and Core Security Consulting Services.

Other Infographics

Cybersecurity for Small Businesses

Infographic | May 25, 2021

Small businesses often ignore security precautions. Sometimes it’s due to a lack of resources, other times it’s because they think hackers won’t care. On the contrary, 58% of all malware attacks are targeted at small businesses, because hackers know there is no proper security in place.

Cyber Security Checklist for 2019

Infographic | December 3, 2019

Over four in ten UK businesses(link is external) suffered a breach or attack during 2018-19, and 43% of cyber attacks are targeting small businesses(link is external). Use our easy to digest infographic to remind yourself and your staff of cyber security best practices, which have never been more important.

Almost half of companies say cybersecurity readiness has improved in the past year

Infographic | December 16, 2019

Mobile and IoT-connected devices present special security risks that many companies are still figuring out how to mitigate. ZDNet's sister site, Tech Pro Research, recently polled IT professionals about the state of cybersecurity in their workplaces. Most seemed to feel that cyberthreats were relatively well controlled. The majority of respondents said their company's cybersecurity readiness was average or above, and most said it had improved in the past year.

Infographic: Is Your Software Vulnerable to Cybercrime

Infographic | February 13, 2020

Third-party support and self-maintenance can’t protect youthe real solution is at the source. Don’t be fooled by third-party support providers and self-maintenance security methods. Security patching is essential for securing enterprise software, including Oracle’s. If you don’t own the code, you can’t access or update it. That leaves your software open to attack and your business open to risk.

Help Your Employees Overcome Cybersecurity Fears by Promoting Cyber Awareness

Infographic | January 23, 2020

Increased cyber awareness has never been more important for businesses and consumers, as U.S. data breaches continue to increase at a record pace and are predicted to reach an all-time high of over 1,000 in 2017. This increase seems to have contributed to a growth in consumer concerns, as our recent research revealed that consumers’ worries about identity theft and cybercrime are now on par with other common concerns such as illnesses and car accidents.

More Infographics

Sophisticated spear phishing attacks becoming more common