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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.

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Sophisticated spear phishing attacks becoming more common