spear phishing - AwareGO https://awarego.com Awareness & Compliance Training Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:43:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://awarego.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-image-32x32.png spear phishing - AwareGO https://awarego.com 32 32 What Is Spear Phishing? A Guide to Precision Cyberattacks (2026) https://awarego.com/what-is-spear-phishing-a-guide-to-precision-cyberattacks-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-spear-phishing-a-guide-to-precision-cyberattacks-2026 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://awarego.com/what-is-spear-phishing-a-guide-to-precision-cyberattacks-2026/ On a Tuesday morning in October 2025, a senior accountant at a mid-sized firm received an email from their CEO. It wasn't a generic blast. The...

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]]> What Is Spear Phishing? The 2026 Guide to Understanding the Human Hack https://awarego.com/what-is-spear-phishing-the-2026-guide-to-understanding-the-human-hack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-spear-phishing-the-2026-guide-to-understanding-the-human-hack Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://awarego.com/what-is-spear-phishing-the-2026-guide-to-understanding-the-human-hack/ At 9:42 AM on a Tuesday, your head of finance receives an email that appears to come from your CEO. It references a specific confidential contract...

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]]> Spear Phishing vs. Phishing: Understanding the Human Risk in 2026 https://awarego.com/spear-phishing-vs-phishing-understanding-the-human-risk-in-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spear-phishing-vs-phishing-understanding-the-human-risk-in-2026 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://awarego.com/spear-phishing-vs-phishing-understanding-the-human-risk-in-2026/ What if your most expensive security software is actually making your team less safe by creating a false sense of security? In 2026, the latest Human...

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]]> 2 New Cybersecurity Videos: Spear Phishing & Password Handling https://awarego.com/cybersecurity-videos-spear-phishing-password-handling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cybersecurity-videos-spear-phishing-password-handling Tue, 17 May 2022 12:08:14 +0000 https://awarego.com/?p=15936 People often say that there are two things certain in life: death and taxes. However, that sounds bit bleak considering that summer has arrived. Perhaps we should paraphrase it to: “There are two things certain in this life: phishing and taxes”. We’ve just published two new cybersecurity videos about phishing and passwords that might help you […]

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]]> Spear Phishing: Danger In Familiarity https://awarego.com/prevent-spear-phishing-danger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prevent-spear-phishing-danger Wed, 15 May 2019 13:46:39 +0000 https://www.awarego.com/?p=2845 The key to spear phishing is that the criminal knows something about the recipient.

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