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May 28, 2023
Perception Point Report: Phishing Attacks Grew by 356 Percent in 2022
A report published this week by Perception Point, a cybersecurity solutions provider, has identified a 356 percent growth in the amount of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022.
A report published this week by Perception Point, a cybersecurity solutions provider, has identified a 356 percent growth in the amount of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022. Overall, the total number of attacks increased by 87 percent, highlighting the growing threat that cyber attacks now pose to organizations. Perception Point’s ‘2023 Annual Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights’ examines cyber threats based on intelligence gathered from the company’s Advanced Threat Prevention solutions, which intercept attacks across email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration apps.
This excerpt first appeared in “Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of May 26; Perception Point, Datadog, SecureIQLab, and More” for Solutions Review on May 26, 2023, written by Mike Costello.
In recent months, threat actors have discovered a troubling new method to exploit URL rewriting, a feature intended to protect users by replacing links in emails. By manipulating these rewritten URLs, attackers mask highly evasive phishing links behind trusted domains of security vendors, effectively bypassing detection. This abuse has led to a critical surge in advanced phishing attacks that leverage the very tools developed to prevent them.
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