{"id":245598,"date":"2023-05-31T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245598"},"modified":"2023-05-31T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:28:48","slug":"hackers-target-indian-organisations-with-spear-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hackers-target-indian-organisations-with-spear-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers target Indian organisations with spear phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cHackers target Indian organisations with spear phishing\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 31st May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to a report, as many as 53% of organizations studied in India were victims of spear phishing in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Spear Phishing?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Spear Phishing <\/span>is an email or electronic communications scam targeted towards a specific individual, organization or business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a targeted attempt to steal sensitive information such as account credentials or financial information from a specific victim, often for malicious reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How does Spear Phishing work?<\/b><\/h2>\n

A spear phishing email uses social engineering techniques to urge the victim to click on a malicious link or attachment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, the email will blatantly ask the recipient to respond urgently, such as transferring a specific sum of money or sending personal data such as a banking password.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the emails are written in a highly familiar tone and refer to personal information about the recipient, victims mistakenly believe they know and trust the sender and respond to the request.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the victim completes the intended action, the attacker can steal the credentials of a targeted legitimate user and enter a network undetected.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHackers target Indian organisations with spear phishing\u201d published in The Hindu on 31st May 2023 What is the News? According to a report, as many as 53% of organizations studied in India were victims of spear phishing in 2022. What is Spear Phishing? Spear Phishing is an… Continue reading Hackers target Indian organisations with spear phishing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-245598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}