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Spear Phishing

Spear Phishing: Why Targeted Attacks Bypass Your Defenses

In March 2022, the threat actor group Lapsus$ breached Okta by spear phishing a single support engineer at a third-party contractor. That one compromised account gave the attackers a foothold that ultimately affected roughly 366 Okta customers. Not a mass email blast. Not a Nigerian prince scam. One carefully researched,

Carl B. Johnson Oct 24, 2022 7 min read
Spear Phishing vs Phishing

Spear Phishing vs Phishing: What Actually Gets People

In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a form of spear phishing — caused $2.4 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. That dwarfs every other cybercrime category. Meanwhile, broad phishing campaigns still top the list as the most common attack

Carl B. Johnson May 25, 2022 7 min read