Spear-phishing is increasingly being used to penetrate systems as the preliminary stage of
an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack, to create a point of entry into the organisation.
Employees are targeted with emails containing information personal to them. The
unsuspecting employee opens an attachment within the email, or downloads a linked file,
which executes and silently installs an APT on a network node within the enterprise. With
recent findings that 91% of APT attacks begin with spear-phishing emails and that …