Being the CEO , business owner or a corporate executive affords you special attention and care by cyber-criminals. Whaling is Spear Phishing targetting high level executives that have access to company’s resources beyong the regular employee.
Once you attain sucess or notariety these attacks will become commonplace and a part of your public visibility, hackers will put extra attention to any details of your public social media postings, where you go on vacations, who you hang out with, when are you at the office and all the details they can use to fool you into doing something you shouldn’t.
Their objectives: capturing sensitive information, credentials they can use to gather more information about you and your business, customer data, or any other informationt they can sell on the dark web.
Your best line of defense: Trust no one , double check the emails and require a phone call prior to sharing any sensitive information