“Spear phishing” attacks are launched as emails that try to con the recipient into clicking a link that leads to a malicious Web site. The difference between phishing and spear phishing is while the former floods thousands or even millions of inboxes, the latter targets a small group of previously-identified people. The IMF incident was only the most recent in a series of specialized attacks this year aimed at targets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the French foreign ministry to Google’s Gmail.”]