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2025-05-01 04:00
Cybercriminals are increasingly favoring low-tech, human-centric attacks to bypass email scanning technologies, according to VIPRE Security. The report is based on an analysis of global real-world data and highlights the most significant email security trends from the first quarter of 2025. Callback phishing Cybercriminals are taking the sentiment “work smarter, not harder” to a whole other level with callback phishing scams, a vector that wasn’t even part of the equation last year In Q1 2025, … More → The post Low-tech phishing attacks are gaining ground appeared first on Help Net Security.
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