Phishing is one of the things that keeps CISOs up at night. Phishing attacks are effective and simple to launch, and used by financially motivated attackers as well as more targeted attacks. In the case of a targeted attack, it may harvest login credentials to gain access to corporate or personal resources. In fact, sometimes corporate access can be used to steal personal data, and vice versa. Once inside the corporate network, attackers can launch full-scale cyber-espionage campaigns – silently stealing sensitive data and selling it on the dark web or obtaining admin server credentials to launch a full-scale network attack – which could cripple a company’s supply chain.
Yet as concerning as phishing may be, an emerging risk is not even realized by CISOs or their end users: phishing is increasingly targeting users on their mobile devices. Attackers are getting a higher return on investment by…
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Posted by: Aaron Cockerill |
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April 17, 2020 at 09:09PM
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