Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?

For threat actors, phishing embodies the holy trinity of goals: easy, effective and profitable. It’s no wonder that the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reports that phishing was the top method used by attackers to breach an organization. Of all the attacks that X-Force remediated in 2021, attackers used phishing in 41% of them. Because […]

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