Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends

Spear phishing continues to be one of the most dangerous threats in the cybersecurity landscape. Once organizations learn to adapt and train their users to these threats, they continue to evolve in new ways to avoid detection. On this video meetup we’ll discuss some of the biggest trends in spear phishing today, and some best practices to defeat these evolving attacks. We’ll be talking with an IT pro from the Spiceworks Community as well as an expert from Barracuda. Here’s what we’ll discuss: - How brand impersonation is being used in more than 80% of spear phishing attacks - Why blackmail scams continue to increase in popularity, which industries are most targeted, and which types of approaches are being used to launch attacks - Which subject lines are the most popular and how scammers customize them to target victims in specific industries