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Spear phishing and catfishing

Spear phishing and catfishing

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Spear phishing and catfishing

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- [Instructor] Phishing is the act of sending out emails or other communications to try to trick people into sharing information with an attacker. Frequently, this kind of activity gets caught by email filters and many people are starting to catch on and recognize these attempts when they see them. But there are two special kinds of phishing that I want to talk about in this episode which are often more successful because they're much more targeted. These are spear phishing and catphishing. Spear phishing is very targeted fishing, often intended to get one individual or a member of a small group of people to accidentally share information that ought to be protected. More specifically, the term whaling is used for targeting high value individuals or accounts and spear phishing targets specific though not necessarily extremely high value targets. But to keep things general, I'll call both spear phishing here. And catphishing is when someone pretends to be someone else in order to get…

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