Security News > 2021 > October > Human hacking increased as apps and browsers moved completely to the cloud

Human hacking - phishing attacks across all digital channels - has dramatically increased in 2021.

"The cybersecurity industry has done a good job of protecting machines, but those efforts leave the most porous and vulnerable parts of any network - the humans using it - unprotected," said Patrick Harr, SlashNext CEO. "Today's hyper-targeted spear phishing attacks, coming at users from all digital channels, are simply not discernable to the human eye. Add to that the increasing number of attacks coming from legitimate infrastructure, and the reason phishing is the number one thing leading to disruptive ransomware attacks is obvious."

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this by attacking outside of email and taking advantage of less protected channels like SMS text, social media, gaming, collaboration tools, and search apps.

Spear phishing and human hacking from legitimate infrastructure increased in August 2021, 12% of all malicious URLs identified came from legitimate cloud infrastructure like including AWS, Azure, outlook.com, and sharepoint.com - enabling cybercriminals the opportunity to easily evade current detection technologies.

Attacks have moved from email to unprotected channels including SMS text, social media, and more.

Security training and human intervention are not practical solutions to stop the threats because the level of sophistication makes most attacks either not discernible to the human eye or engineered enough to draw in the most informed person.

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