"Spear-phishing Is The Next Threat After A Data Breach"

Data breaches are becoming more and more frequent.  After a data breach, an immense quantity of data is leaked and exposed online.  Usually this data includes personal and professional information. After a data breach, attackers will use a spear-phishing attack.  These attacks are highly targeted and customized and are far more likely to succeed than traditional phishing attacks. Crooks typically use data exposed by a data breach to obtain more information about the victims and the organizations that are affected. In order to increase the success rate these kinds of attacks, the attackers will include a messages often contain urgent explanations on why they need sensitive information. The victims then are coaxed to open a malicious attachment or click on a link that takes them to a fake website where they are asked to provide sensitive information, such as passwords, account numbers, credit card numbers, access codes and personal information numbers (PINs).

Cyberdefencemagaine reports: "Spear-phishing Is The Next Threat After A Data Breach"