Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months. Victims are tricked into visiting malicious Web sites or opening malicious attachments. In April, a targeted e-mailing was sent to corporate executives, informing them that they had been sued. In May, over 2,000 people were compromised with spear-phish e-mails claiming to come from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau. Researchers at Verisign have tracked 66 of these attacks since February 2007.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2122822/spear-phishing-attacks-hook-15-000.html