What is barrel phishing? All you need to know

Imagine that you receive an email from a sender who appears to have some connection to you — a coworker, someone you met at a conference, or maybe your boss. The email is benign without any of the usual markers of phishing emails. Then you get a second email with a link or attachment. After trusting the first message, without thinking, you click the malicious link in the second email. Oops! you’ve just had your sensitive information stolen in a double-barrel phishing attack. However, armed with knowledge, you don’t have to become a victim to barrel phishing. Read on to learn about what barrel phishing is and how it works.