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Cybersecurity professionals face an increasingly aggressive phishing threat landscape, and the 2025 KnowBe4 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report makes one thing crystal clear: transforming your largest attack surface - your workforce - into your biggest security asset is critical. 49 Seconds to Disaster According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the median time it takes someone to click a malicious link is a staggering 21 seconds.

KnowBe4 ThreatLabs has identified and analyzed a sophisticated cross-platform phishing campaign that utilizes Telegram as its primary exfiltration channel. The campaign uses a combination of security-themed phishing emails, branded phishing websites to harvest credentials, and Telegram bots to exfiltrate data.

Email Threats Continue to Hit Businesses Where It Hurts Most The cyber threat landscape in 2024 saw a continued rise in email-based attacks, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated forms of business email compromise (BEC) and fund transfer fraud (FTF). These threats aren’t just technical — they hit organizations financially, emotionally, and operationally.

Researchers at Cisco Talos warn that major phishing kits continue to incorporate features that allow them to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Commodity phishing kits like Tycoon 2FA and Evilproxy achieve this by using reverse proxies to intercept traffic from the authentication process during a phishing attack.

Phishing was the initial access vector in 50% of attacks during the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report from Cisco Talos. “Threat actors used phishing to achieve initial access in 50 percent of engagements, a notable increase from less than 10 percent last quarter,” Talos writes.

Researchers at Malwarebytes warn that phishing emails are impersonating the US Social Security Administration (SSA) to trick users into installing the ScreenConnect remote access tool. ScreenConnect is a legitimate tool used for remote IT management, but it can be abused by hackers to take control of victims’ computers.

The UK's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology last month released its Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, an annual piece of research designed to inform national policy and bolster the country's cyber resilience.

The mechanisms and dangers of email phishing are well known, as are the best practices for hardening organizations against it. Its spin-off, called vishing, is nothing new, but it’s both rapidly evolving, and unlike the more mainstream counterpart, too often overlooked by security professionals. According to the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report, these offbeat attacks saw a 442% increase in the second half of 2024 compared to the first half of the year.

Let’s face it: your inbox is a warzone. Email security is a constant battle between evolving threats and the defenses designed to stop them. Every day, attackers bombard user inboxes with increasingly sophisticated phishing attempts, malware, and social engineering attacks. So, how do we win the battle? It’s not as simple as slapping on a piece of software; it’s about implementing a multi-layered approach that balances AI-driven automation and human expertise.