Sentences with phrase «spear phishing emails»

Not exact matches

Employees of several pipeline companies have been targets of spear - phishing attacks — efforts to lure them to click on email attachments containing malicious code.

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The revised Protocol, which offers practical information on how criminals operate and how not to fall victim, also now covers malware, spear phishing, cheque fraud, card payment fraud and CEO / whaling fraud (where the email of a senior manager or partner is hacked or spoofed).

Hackers use the information they steal for so - called spear phishing — mimicking the real email addresses of buyers, sellers, counsel and real estate companies, they send email directing those involved in real estate closings to transmit funds to bank accounts controlled by the hackers.

The market is primarily driven by the increasing spear phishing attacks, increasing adoption of BYOD policy in organizations and the growth of cloud email security solutions.

As opposed to the blatantly nefarious emails that sometimes enter our inboxes, «spear phishing» attacks look authentic.

The spear - phishing emails seek to plant a computer program that searches and send copies of documents to a server in another country.

With spear phishing attacks like CEO spoofing, sophisticated email scammers can compromise corporations and law firms.

In the examples above the hackers were after client data stored on firm servers, but they can also target client trust account money through spear - phishing attacks or malware attached to emails.

An attacker could create a phishing email (probably a targeted spear - phishing email) encouraging employees of a corporation to install a malicious configuration profile attached to the email.

The gang would send out spear - phishing emails to bank employees, allowing the criminals to remotely control infected machines and provide the intelligence needed to cash out the money, either by remotely instructing ATMs, using money mules to collect money from inflated databases or nefarious e-payment use.

Most of these «spear phishing» attempts come via email or SMS, Xiao said.

The spear - phishing emails purported to be from professors at one university to those at another and contained what appeared to be authentic article links.

FireEye informed the public that to their knowledge hackers used spear phishing, «a fraudulent method of sending emails to make them look like they were sent by someone you know, and dispersed malware to obtain virtual cash illicitly.»