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What is Spear Phishing?

TSpear phishing attacks are more narrowly targeted than regular phishing attacks.

These attacks pretend to be messages from trusted and recognizable sources, such as bank communications or your internal network resource, to get the user to respond to a message or link.

This takes them outside of their protected network, making their computer susceptible to attack.
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