Security News > 2022 > May > Vishing cases reach all time high

Vishing cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months, according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs.

According to the findings, vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise as the second most reported response-based email threat since Q3 2021.

By the end of the year, more than one in four of every reported response-based threat was a vishing attack, and this makeup continued through Q1 2022.

"We are seeing an increase in threat actors moving away from standard voice phishing campaigns to initiating multi-stage malicious email attacks. In these campaigns, actors use a callback number within the body of the email as a lure, then rely on social engineering and impersonation to trick the victim into calling and interacting with a fake representative."

Credential theft email scams continue to be the most common email threat type reported by employees, contributing to nearly 59% of all threat types encountered.

"Most attack campaigns are not built from scratch; they are based on reshaping traditional tactics and incorporating multiple platforms. Therefore, to remain secure, it's no longer effective for organizations to only look within the network perimeter. They must also have visibility into a variety of external channels to proactively gather intelligence and monitor for threats."

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