What Is Spear Phishing? Spear Phishing is a targeted email attack aimed at one specific person or organization, built using real details about the target to look convincing: a vendor’s name, a client’s policy number, even the writing style of someone you actually work with. How It’s Different From Regular Phishing A generic phishing email might claim to be from “your bank” with
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This Is the Attack That Read Your Emails for Six Weeks Before Anyone Knew Business email compromise does not break in. It gets comfortable and waits, and insurance agencies are exactly the kind of business it waits inside. Six weeks ago, an attacker got access to a mailbox at an insurance agency. Not a large
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Your Agency Is Exactly the Size Attackers Are Looking For Assuming you are too small to be hit by a cyber attack is putting you at risk. Cyber attacks on small insurance agencies are not the exception attackers make — they are the business model. I have seen it before: people who thought they were
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The three attacks hitting insurance agencies most often do not trigger antivirus. The agency had antivirus on every device. Updated, active, reporting clean. The breach ran for 4 weeks before anyone knew it had started. What Antivirus Watches Antivirus scans files. When something malicious attempts to execute on a device, it flags it. That is
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