Digital Trends - Cisco’s Security Intelligence Operations group has published a new report, Email Attacks: This Time It’s Personal (PDF) that indicates the Internet is experiencing a fundamental shift in the nature of spam: instead of spammers relying on sending as many messages as possible and hoping to get responses from a tiny fraction of one percent of gullible recipients, spammers are shifting to a far smaller number of targeted, personalized attacks—a.ka. spearphishing. The good news is that the overall volume of mass spam has declined sharply, along with the amount of money criminals gain from them. The bad news is that targeted attacks are up sharply…and criminals make a lot more money every time one of them succeeds.
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Security Cisco: Spammers shifting to targeted attacks
(Digital Trends)
Security Cisco: Spammers shifting to targeted attacks
(Digital Trends)
