Security News > 2023 > May > Threat actors exploit new channels for advanced phishing attacks
Perception Point's team has identified a 356% increase in the number of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022.
Overall, the total number of attacks increased by 87%, highlighting the growing threat that cyber attacks now pose to organizations.
Firstly, malicious actors continue to gain widespread access to new tools and advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning which simplify and automate the process of generating attacks.
Threat actors have pivoted their attack toolkits, reaching beyond email and web browsers to these apps and services.
Phishing proved to be the most pervasive threat, accounting for 67.4% of all attacks.
Advanced attacks constituted 31.9% of the total on file storage tools, and some 56.9% on Amazon S3 buckets.
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