What is Spear Phishing? Spear phishing is a type of phishing attack that can cause huge loss of personal or professional data further leading to loss of identity or financial losses. Before we understand what Spear Phishing is, let us first know the meaning of phishing and the types of phishing . Meaning of Phishing Phishing in the simplest way means illegal “fishing of data” which can be used to either defame someone or to procure personal financial credentials for committing cyber-theft or illegal procurement of a company’s/individual’s information leading to loss of integrity or finances. This is done by attackers who send malicious emails to an individual or group posing to be authentic service providers, popular brands, etc. Once the attacked individual falls prey to opening and clicking on the link in the email or message his/her data is now vulnerable either because of a malware installation or in a few cases the user enters his/her personal information like card details o...