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A recent investigation by BlueVoyant’s threat analysts has uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting the Weebly.com platform to create fraudulent websites targeting small to mid-sized banks and financial institutions across the United States. This campaign stands out for its widespread scale and diffusion. Over the past few months, BlueVoyant has identified hundreds of phishing websites targeting more than 200 American banks and financial institutions.

Phishing attacks are cyberattacks where hackers use deceptive tactics to hack into user accounts to conduct fraud, scams, data breaches, identity theft, and more attacks.

Phishing protection refers to the tools, strategies, and technologies used to detect and prevent cybercriminals from impersonating your brand, stealing credentials, and defrauding your customers. As attackers move faster and impersonate more convincingly, brands need more than just domain scans or email authentication to stay protected. Many security and digital teams rely on email filters, takedown services, or brand education to manage phishing risks.

A phishing campaign is targeting Instagram users with phony notifications about failed login attempts, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Notably, the emails contain "mailto" links rather than traditional URLs, which help the phishing messages avoid being flagged by security filters. "Instead of linking to a phishing website, which is most common with emails like this, both the ‘Report this user’ and ‘Remove your email address’ links are mailto links," the researchers write.