Abnormal Intelligence Research

From January-June 2022, Abnormal Security found a 48% increase in email attacks over the previous six months, and 68.5% of those attacks included a credential phishing link.

For years, executives were the go-to impersonated party in business email compromise attacks. Now, threat actors are opting to impersonate vendors and suppliers instead.

In this sophisticated credential phishing attack, the threat actor created a duplicate version of Stripe’s entire website.

Ransomware has gotten a lot of attention in 2021, primarily due to the disruption attacks have caused to supply chains around the world. From Colonial Pipeline to Quanta, ransomware has made headlines and shows little sign of slowing down.