Social Engineering Tactics Continue to Evolve

Barracuda researchers evaluated more than 360,000 spear phishing emails
in a three month period, identifying and analysing three major types of attacks; Brand Impersonation, Blackmail, and Business Email Compromise. 

Download your free copy for more information on the following:

• How brand impersonation is being used in more than 80% of spear-phishing attacks, which brands are the most impersonated and which employees are most targeted.
  
  
• Why blackmail, which makes up 10% of all spear-phishing attacks, continue to increase in popularity, which industries are most targeted and which types of approaches are being used to launch attacks.
  
  
• Which 10 popular domains are used to launch the majority of business email compromise attacks, which subject lines are the most popular and how scammers customise them to target victims in specific industries.

Take a look at other instalments of the Spear Phishing report series:

• Spear Phishing Top Threats and Trends - Vol. 2:
  Email Account Takeover: Defending Against Lateral Phishing
  
  
• Spear Phishing Top Threats and Trends Vol. 3:
  Defending Against Business Email Compromise Attacks