Advanced Phishing Attacks

Alexander Bunn, Founder of ClickPhish based in the United Kingdom participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Advanced Phishing Attacks. Advanced Phishing Attacks...

Alexander Bunn, Founder of ClickPhish based in the United Kingdom participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Advanced Phishing Attacks.

Advanced Phishing Attacks

Phishing attacks are a growing global problem. As the phishing attacks grow rapidly in both frequency and sophistication, it poses a critical threat to individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA). If we, that is individuals and entities across NGIOA are to protect our information in digital format and all other formats, it’s important that we get informed about “phishing”.

To begin with, we need to understand how to quickly and efficiently recognize some of the most common phishing attacks, as getting informed about phishing has now become a survival necessity. However, this is by no means going to be easy as “phishing” attacks transform to take on new types, techniques, and tools. The changing nature of phishing scams varies widely in terms of their complexity and the quality of the forgery.

So, let us understand what is phishing?
What happens to this stolen digital information?
Where does it end up?

As phishing email messages, websites, and phone calls keep growing, the advances in phishing attacks are becoming a cause of serious concern. It is time to take a closer look at the Advanced Phishing Attacks.

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About the Guest

Alexander Bunn is the founder of ClickPhish. He is based in the United Kingdom. He is an enterprising and technologically astute Information Security Professional with extensive experience in delivering information security consultancy services across diverse business sectors.

He is skilled in risk management and analysis, specifically trained in social engineering; web application penetration testing; infrastructure design/implementation; and vulnerability assessment, identification and mitigation.