Spear-phishing is getting harder to detect as successful practices inform future "phishes." What doesn't work is abandoned, reworked and the culprit becomes increasingly less suspicious.
It may come as a surprise or not, but 19% of spear-phishing attempts are successful. Someone in an organization takes the personalized bait and hands out secure information.
The effects of spear-phishing can be avoided by fact checking. I haven't seen a copy of the message received by AP employees yesterday. It would be interesting to see it and fact check it.
Can anyone find it?
1 comment:
Sent: Tue 4/23/2013 12:12 PM
From: [An AP staffer]
Subject: News
I found a copy of it at http://grouptweet.com/blog/?p=521. Here it is:
"Hello,
Please read the following article, it’s very important :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23/
[A different AP staffer]
Associated Press
San Diego
mobile [removed]"
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