Phishing

The 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) highlights key information related to social engineering.

According to Netswitch Technology Management, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) kill-chain looks like the following:

To improve your cyber security and successfully prevent, detect and resolve advanced persistent threats, you need to know how APTs work:

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns comprise a growing part of the current threat landscape. Some APT campaigns remain active, in fact, even after drawing extensive

Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking unauthorized access to confidential data. Spear phishing messages appear to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-known company or website with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, the appa

Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive informative such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing is the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information for malicious reasons.

Semi-annually, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) publishes the Phishing Activity Trends Report.

The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report includes vast information on security related issues. Spam, phishing and malware data are captured through a variety of sources.

Since the 90s, phishing continues to evolve and continues to trick, especially those in communications, legal and customer service areas. According to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, 23% of recipients