The cybercrime landscape has changed significantly over the past few years. Most CISOs are aware of headline-grabbing threats like ransomware and crypto scams, but comparatively few have kept up with shifting tactics in one of the oldest cyberattack vectors: phishing.
Attackers have become more sophisticated at impersonating organizations and their employees on websites and social media platforms, and the FBI consistently ranks phishing as the most prevalent form of internet crime. In the FBI’s most recent Internet Crime Report, it counted more than 241,000 phishing victims over the last year, which accounts for a full third of all reported internet crime and is more than double the number of victims of the second most prevalent internet crime.