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What is the difference between deceptive phishing and spear phishing?
The correct answer is B. A spear phishing campaign is aimed at a specific person versus a group of people.. Spear phishing relates to attacks targeted to individuals. Spear phishing always focuses on one
Submitted by fernanda_arg· Mar 30, 2026Attacks, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigation
Question
What is the difference between deceptive phishing and spear phishing?
Options
- ADeceptive phishing is an attacked aimed at a specific user in the organization who holds a C-level
- BA spear phishing campaign is aimed at a specific person versus a group of people.
- CSpear phishing is when the attack is aimed at the C-level executives of an organization.
- DDeceptive phishing hijacks and manipulates the DNS server of the victim and redirects the user to
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A4% (1)
- B91% (21)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
Spear phishing relates to attacks targeted to individuals. Spear phishing always focuses on one
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#phishing#spear phishing#social engineering
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