What is Spear Phishing?
Spear phishing often looks and feels like a legitimate message which is why they easily bypass legacy email security controls.
Anatomy of an Attack
Why is email the #1 attack vector for cyberattacks?
Because 30% of employees continue to open spear phishing emails resulting in an average of $1.6 million in stolen assets per campaign.
PHASE 1: Research
Identify Targets
Cybercriminals leverage data from corporate breaches, a target's own website, LinkedIn or other social media sites to build their target list.
PHASE 2: Develop
Prepare Attack
Prior to launching the email attack, cybercriminals develop their payloads including building fake websites of reputable brands or organizations to fool their victims.
PHASE 3: Deceive
Distribute Emails
Emails touting urgency—"Security Alert," a tax-time request for employee W-2s, etc.—are delivered. Attacks are personalized, low volume, and targeted so they're unlikely to be detected.
PHASE 4: Retrieve
Reap Rewards
Once the requested action is taken, usually involving clicking a phishing link or opening the attachment, criminals can login to the victim's account or access their system to steal confidential information.
The Agari Advantage
Growing Smarter Every Day
It’s not enough to react and detect spear phishing attacks, but to prevent and deter them before they strike. Agari predicts attacks based on understanding the identity and relationships behind the message and on how closely a new message correlates or deviates from known patterns of good email communication.
Even though your business may not have seen a threat, Agari likely has – it's already at work protecting organizations worldwide,.
Automated Phishing Response
Your employees are not security experts and even with security training cannot consistently detect a spear phishing attack, costing Security Operations Centers time and resources to remediate phishing incidents.
Suspicious Email Analysis exponentially improves your Security Operations Center response by up to 95% for employee-reported incident triage, forensics, remediation and containment.
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Cloud Email Protection
Stop sophisticated identity deception threats including business email compromise, executive spoofing, and account takeover-based attacks.
