Security News > 2021 > June > Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise attacks.

Besides being personally embarrassing, these phishing attacks are becoming increasingly dangerous to organizations.

To demonstrate just how effective and insidious phishing lures have become, Agari Cyber Intelligence Division put 8,000 account credentials under their control on phishing sites just to watch and see what would happen next.

They found three families of attacks were responsible for 85 percent of attacks, demonstrating it that was a small number of threat actors, or versions of phishing code, launching wide-scale campaigns.

Worse, as these attackers gain access to an increasing number of accounts, those are then used to launch additional attacks.

"Phishing attacks can be used as the catalyst for almost any cyberattack," he explained.

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https://threatpost.com/lewd-phishing-lures-business-explode/166734/