Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack

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Nothing Personal: Training Employees to Identify a Spear Phishing Attack.

Phishing attacks began years ago as simple spam, designed to trick recipients into visiting sites and becoming customers. In the meantime, they have morphed into a worldwide criminal industry. In recent years, threat actors have refined their methods of phishing, becoming increasingly more sophisticated as people have become wise to the traditional, obvious and unrealistic emails, which now often trigger suspicion.