Why Business Needs to Prepare for Phishing 2.0

At one point, it seemed that phishing was receding to the status of a minor issue threatening only naïve consumers. But a new version has emerged, fueled by new cybercriminals and new phishing techniques.
 
New types of phishing campaigns are particularly worrisome for businesses because:
 
• They are aimed at businesses (including small and midsize businesses) rather than consumers.
• They evade traditional antivirus and antiphishing products.
• They can fool even security-savvy computer users by using information gathered from social media and other web sources.
• They often target employees with access to the most sensitive information, such as bank accounts, customer lists and intellectual property.

In this white paper we will:

• Summarize the decline of Phishing 1.0
• Discuss how phishing has turned toward business and become more costly
• Outline the structure of new Phishing 2.0 attacks.
• Delineate how the new campaigns evade standard antiphishing countermeasures.
• Describe how web security services with real-time antiphishing capabilities can protect against Phishing 2.0 attacks
 
Check out the full white paper here, and please leave us your comments and questions.