Privacy Tip #416 – Impersonation is the Most Prolific Phishing Tactic in 2024
A new report published by the software company Egress this month, Phishing Threat Trends Report , is a must-read. It outlines the proliferation of phishing toolkits on the dark web (that basically allows any Tom, Dick, and Harry Hacker) to launch successful phishing campaigns, how “commodity phishing attacks are overwhelming security teams,” the anatomy of advanced persistent threats, the most prolific phishing tactic in 2024, and how AI-assisted attacks are becoming more challenging to detect. Presently, I would like to focus on one piece of the Egress report that is near and dear to me:, the latest phishing tactics. Phishing continues to be one of the most prevalent c auses of security incidents and data breaches . There are some fascinating statistics in the report for all of us to process and internalize. First, the “most phished day of the year so far” was June 10th, 2024, and the most common time to receive a phishing email is at 12:37 p.m. This means that we ...