"Vishing Cases Reach All Time High"

Researchers from Agari and PhishLabs have discovered that vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021).  In Q1 2022, Agari and PhishLabs detected and mitigated hundreds of thousands of phishing, social media, email, and dark web threats targeting many enterprises and brands.  According to the researchers, vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise (BEC) as the second most reported response-based email threat since Q3 2021.  The researchers stated that by the end of the year, more than one in four of every reported response-based threat was a vishing attack, and this makeup continued through Q1 2022.  Hybrid vishing campaigns continue to generate stunning numbers, representing 26.1% of the total share in volume so far in 2022.  During their research, the researchers also found that social media impersonation attacks are on the rise.  Since Q2 2021, the volume of brand impersonations increased by 339%, and executive impersonations by 273%.  Credential theft email scams continue to be the most common email threat type reported by employees, contributing to nearly 59% of all threat types encountered. 

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