Four organizations have confirmed Phishing attacks targeting employee data. One of the targeted firms was a security company, and luckily the attack failed. PhishLabs said the number of organizations targeted with BEC attacks grew tremendously in 2015 as attackers refined their techniques and sought new victims. The leverage is fear, because most employees don’t want to deny a request form the CEO. The attacks are rarely automated, rarely automated and when messages are exchanged it’s the attacker talking on the other side, the victim will never know something’s wrong until it’s too late.”]

