Phishing and spear phishing have long been thought to be mutually exclusive hacking tricks, but cybercrooks have found a way to combine the two in a technique called longline phishing. “The technique allows you to hit a lot of people very quickly and largely go undetected,” said Dave Jevans, founder and CTO of Marble Security. With spear phishing, typically used as a vehicle for advanced persistent threat attacks, a select group of connected people are targeted with a highly credible email message.
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Phishers Cast Longlines to Hook More Victims
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 11, 2013 06:00 AMPhishing and spear phishing have long been thought to be mutually exclusive hacking tricks, but cybercrooks have found a way to combine the two in a technique called longline phishing. “The technique allows you to hit a lot of people very quickly and largely go undetected,” said Dave Jevans, founder and CTO of Marble Security. With spear phishing, typically used as a vehicle for advanced persistent threat attacks, a select group of connected people are targeted with a highly credible email message.