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Nation-State Phishing: A Country-Sized Catch

October 30, 2018

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Sophisticated nation-state groups now integrate phishing as a core component of their statecraft.

Thanks to the traditional role of phishing in widespread email scams, there is a general tendency to equate it with clearly fraudulent and obnoxiously implausible emails. While this misperception has not evolved, phishing campaigns have.

Once a threat that went hand-in-hand with spam email, phishing is now increasingly integrated into highly tactical, customized campaigns deployed to penetrate nation-state defenses.

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