Threats improve to slip past firewalls and filters

The latest Cyber Threat Intelligence Report from Hoxhunt looks at the quantity and quality of threats that bypass firewalls and email filters. It finds attackers are improving their techniques to create more credible threats which are more likely to slip past defenses. Phishing techniques are improving with cleaner language, more convincing formatting and more believable workflow mimicry. At the same time phishing has begun to leave email environments and move into social platforms, recruitment channels and other communication layers that shape professional identity. Social-media links in malicious emails increased by 600 percent since 2023, driven largely by compromised business email… [Continue Reading]