... 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Spear phishing Transparent communication Cybersecurity practitioners Incident reporting Lateral phishing Sophisticated phishing attacks like lateral phishing have recently grown in complexity, posing a formidable challenge...

... and non-legitimate spear-phishing content over e-mail? The paper is a revised and extended version of the work that was originally done by (Unchit et al., 2020) and (Das et al., 2019b), with the content having been updated based on subsequent research and feedback from the events...

... were asked to provide personally identifiable information (PII). A personalised spear phishing email opening was randomly used in half of the emails. Findings Nineteen per cent of the employees provided their PII in a general phishing email, compared to 29 per cent in the spear phishing condition...