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Phishing Definition: What It Really Means in 2026

In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. Yet when I ask executives to give me a phishing definition, most of them describe something from 2009: a Nigerian prince email with

Carl B. Johnson Sep 13, 2026 5 min read
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Phishing Definition: What It Really Means in 2022

Twilio, a company with a sophisticated security team and a tech-savvy workforce, got phished in August 2022. Attackers sent SMS messages to employees pretending to be the IT department, directing them to a fake login page. The result: compromised credentials, unauthorized access to customer data, and a breach that rippled

Carl B. Johnson Nov 21, 2022 6 min read