
Cyber Attacks
How Whaling Attacks Work: The Step-by-Step Mechanics
Whaling succeeds not through technical brilliance, but by exploiting the natural deference organisations pay to authority figures and established communication patterns.
Everything Phish Herald has reported about email security: 4 stories, newest first. Part of our Cyber Attacks coverage.

Whaling succeeds not through technical brilliance, but by exploiting the natural deference organisations pay to authority figures and established communication patterns.

Attackers forge email headers to mimic trusted senders, bypassing basic address checks while hiding the true origin of the message.

Most detection fails because attackers mimic behaviour, not just addresses, so you must verify context rather than relying on surface-level email headers.

Attackers hide malicious scripts inside harmless-looking HTML files, causing your browser to build the malware locally and bypassing traditional security scans.