What’s Behind The Rise of Spear Phishing Attacks on IT Leaders?

The report explains how spear-phishing has evolved into highly targeted, AI-enhanced campaigns that exploit trust, context, and timing—particularly against IT leaders whose privileged access makes them lucrative targets. Citing Arctic Wolf research and academic work on LLM-driven phishing, it highlights high click rates and behavioural risk, describes common attacker tactics (spoofed cloud portals, credential harvesting), and outlines mitigations including advanced email security, endpoint controls, zero trust/MFA, and focused security awareness training.