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- noun Internet
phishing against a small group ofselected targets who are more likely to beattracted
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Examples
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Zero-day attacks enabled by the vulnerability could be used for "spearphishing" -- phishing targeted at a select pool of victims, according to antivirus vendor Symantec, which discovered the threat.
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"spearphishing" -- a tactic in which criminals profile specific users and often design customized e-mails to steal corporate or government secrets.
unknown title 2009
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Even seemingly innocuous information about companies is swiped for "spearphishing" attacks in which hackers dupe influential employees into downloading malicious computer codes into company networks.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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By all reports, the attack appeared to be administrator "spearphishing", so proper authentication/authorization is probably how this breach could have been stopped.
Forbes.com: News Christian Wolan 2011
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A recent report from the SANS Institute concluded that spearphishing and malicious code embedded in trusted Web sites are the fastest-growing risks for commercial and governmental organizations.
unknown title 2009
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That’s not so very different from her convincing Mr Big that she was a journalist who wished to interview him about his wonderful charity work, though that was more targeted – “spearphishing” is the term used for a targeted cyber-attack, rather than indiscriminate trawling.
‘I’m not Snow White. I have to think like a criminal’: how I became a burglar for hire Sam Wollaston 2023
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