Global Security Watch > 'Phishing' Becomes 'Whaling' As E-Mail Scams Go After Corporate Execs

Switched[Switched] What do you call it when phishers, people who trick people with official looking e-mails, start aiming for bigger targets? Whaling, apparently, as that's the new term being applied to a particular breed of phisher that is going after .

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