Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

November 2019

Social Engineering 2.0 - Evasive Spear Phishing and Vendor Email Compromise

When companies are investigating the weak points in their cyber defenses, they must look beyond their IT infrastructure. In most cases, an organization’s biggest security vulnerability does not stem from the machines on its network, but from people on the payroll. And because this is common knowledge to threat actors, social engineering attacks that target employees generally constitute a bigger threat to businesses than cyber campaigns that directly attack computer systems.