The new Lunker phishing attack and audit tool is aimed at the penetration tester, so it comes with some advanced hacking features, and doesn’t use canned scenarios, but rather templates that can be customized. “Spear phishing is a huge risk. You’ve really got to start testing for this,” says Joshua Perrymon, who developed the Lunker tool. “You’ve got to start measuring the effectiveness of your [organization’s] security awareness and policies.”

...Lunker is aimed at the in-house hacker or outside researcher, Perrymon, CEO of PacketFocus, says. It includes an email reconnaissance feature that crawls the major search engines for corporate email accounts, but can also use lists provided by the would-be targeted organization. It also probes the target for weak links and suggests the most effective template for an attack, based on the emails and other analysis it has conducted on the target. And it comes with monitoring features that analyze the phished user’s actions in response to the phishing email.