We've recently been chatting about the top trends in spear phishing with Asaf Cideon, our senior vice president.
In an interview about the spear phishing trends, he states,"We're seeing that attackers are increasingly bypassing existing email defenses by sending emails that include no attachments or links, and basically tell the recipient that the attacker has obtained a password to their account, and wants them to send some bitcoin, otherwise they will expose very embarrassing information about the recipient," Cidon says. "In our report, we found that these attacks comprise over 10 percent of all the spear phishing attacks."
Check out the 10 minutes talk here!