{"id":11306,"date":"2023-05-30T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11306"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:18:21","slug":"what-is-spear-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-spear-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Spear Phishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Spear Phishing:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>email or electronic communications<\/strong> <strong>scam<\/strong> <strong>targeted<\/strong> towards a <strong>specific individual, organization or business.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a targeted attempt to <strong>steal sensitive information <\/strong>such as account credentials or financial information <strong>from a specific victim, often for malicious reasons<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This is achieved <strong>by acquiring personal details on the victim<\/strong> such as their friends, hometown, employer, locations they frequent, and what they have recently bought online.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A spear <strong>phishing email uses social engineering techniques<\/strong> to urge the victim to click on a malicious link or attachment.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, the <strong>email will blatantly ask the recipient to respond urgently<\/strong>, such as transferring a specific sum of money or sending personal data such as a banking password.<\/li>\n<li>Because the emails are <strong>written in a highly familiar tone<\/strong> and re<strong>fer to personal information about the recipien<\/strong>t, victims mistakenly believe they know and trust the sender and respond to the request.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Once the victim completes the intended action, the attacker can steal the credentials <\/strong>of a targeted legitimate user and enter a network undetected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This is the <strong>most successful form of acquiring confidential information on the internet<\/strong>, accounting for 91% of attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Phishing?<\/h3>\n<p>Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/info-tech\/hackers-target-indian-organisations-with-spear-phishing\/article66907247.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Report. Hackers target Indian organisations with spear phishing<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spear Phishing is an email or electronic communications scam targeted towards a specific individual, organization or business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}