A curated collection of phishing-related content that breaks down the tactics, lures, and social engineering techniques attackers use to hook their victims. These digestible posts serve as awareness resources for security training, helping readers understand why phishing works and how to build stronger defenses against it.
posts
Your Employees Are Hungry — And Threat Actors Are Cooking In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) logged over 298,000 phishing complaints — more than any other cybercrime category for the fifth year running. That's nearly 817 reported phishing attacks per day. And those are
Your Employees Are Phish Food — And Threat Actors Know It In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2024 annual report showing over $16 billion in reported cybercrime losses — the highest figure ever recorded. Phishing and its variants topped the list of complaint types
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released data showing that phishing was still the number one reported cybercrime — for the fifth year running. Over 298,000 complaints in 2023 alone. Despite billions spent on email filters and endpoint protection, threat actors keep winning because the
Your Inbox Is a Buffet — And Threat Actors Are Cooking In March 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing was the number one crime type by victim count for the fifth year running, with over 298,000 complaints in a single year. Every one of
Your Inbox Is a Buffet — and Attackers Are Feeding In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still tallying the damage from a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The cost? Over $100 million in losses. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day
