Spear Phishing Attacks: Top 7 Signs to Watch For

This article provides a concise primer on spear phishing: defining the threat, describing how attackers use personalization and social engineering to impersonate contacts and deliver malicious links or steal data, and listing seven signs to detect such emails (urgent subject lines, low-quality images, unfamiliar tone, link/domain inconsistencies, unusual requests, odd timestamps, and unknown companies). It emphasizes the psychological nature of these attacks and recommends vigilance and user education, referencing KnowBe4's training product as a mitigation.