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Researchers Devise Hopeful Defense Against Credential Spear Phishing Attacks

05

Sep

2017

A new research paper, ‘Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings’, was awarded the Facebook Internet Defense Prize at the 26th USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver, BC, August 16-18, 2017. The paper proposes and evaluates a methodology for effectively detecting credential spear phishing attacks in corporate networks while achieving a very low number of false […]

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Spearphishing: It’s Curiosity That Makes Them Click

10

Aug

2016

Researchers prove that people can be fooled just because they want to know what’s on the other end of that email. Here are three steps you can take without spending too much money. If it was curiosity that killed the cat, it can also be the reason organizations can experience a costly spear phishing attack. […]

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Spear-phish the technical director

13

Jun

2016

Wouldn’t it be something if you managed to spear-phish the technical director of an anti-malware company? The criminal kudos would be sky-high; but just imagine the possible effect of getting top-level credentials into a cloud-based anti-malware product that automatically pushes out updates to millions of customers. Worth a try, I think. And try they do. […]

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