Case Study

Following the Trail of a Spear Phishing Campaign

Following the Trail of a Spear Phishing Campaign

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Following the Trail of a Spear Phishing Campaign A multi-billion dollar oil and gas company identified a phishing campaign that targeted 80 people within the organization, and learned that nearly half of them clicked a link in the deceptive email. The security team was first alerted to this attack by a user who called the help desk to report the suspicious email. After receiving that call, the Awake Security Platform enabled a swift and efficient response that would have taken days to accomplish for analysts using traditional tools. The Awake Security Platform detected that devices that interacted with the attacker domain subsequently also visited a known good domain. The good domain turned out to be providing JavaScript used to mask the password being typed into the browser to m

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