Security Awareness – Vishing Attacks Increasingly Using Lures to Trick Users into Calling

Vishing (voice phishing) attacks have dramatically increased over the past year, according to a recent cybersecurity report. The latest quarterly report from Agari and PhishLabs found that vishing attacks increased 550 percent in Q1 2022, compared to the year prior. Additionally, the report found that vishing has overtaken business email compromise (BEC) as the second most reported email threat since Q3 2021. “Hybrid vishing campaigns continue to generate stunning numbers, representing 26.1 [percent] of total share in volume so far in 2022,” said John LaCour, Principal Strategist at HelpSystems. “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.” Read more at PhishLabs.