📩Spear-Phishing Methods (VIP)

What is Whaling

Whaling is a kind of spear-phishing attack that targets at "big-fish" - top rank managers, politicians, celebraties and so on.

Why Whaling?

• Bigger profit, A "whale" has more valuable data than a regular person

• Cybersecurity unawereness

• False sense of invulnerability

Whaling Stages

Step 1:

Information Gathering

Step 2:

Preparing spear-phishing payload

Step 3:

Attacking the "whale"