The 2024 Phishing Intelligence Report
Prepare for 2025: The phishing landscape reveals an unprecedented surge in attack volume, with a 202% increase in phishing messages in the second half of 2024, and credential phishing attacks rising 703% in the same period.
The 2024 Phishing Intelligence Report uncovers the most critical insights from the current threat landscape. We analyzed key attacks and trends of the past year, using data to determine whether phishing threats are escalating, stabilizing, or declining. Here’s what to expect in 2025 and the emerging attack vectors to watch.
In this report, you’ll learn about:
- The soaring 703% surge in credential theft attacks spawned by sophisticated phishing kits and the 141% increase in social engineering tactics.
- The massive 202% uptick in email-based attacks.
- Zero-day dominance underscoring the limitations of static threat intelligence and signature-based detection methods.
- The frequency of user exposure averaging three to six threats per week during peak periods.
Learn about these and much more.
Surge of Credential Phishing
Recent data indicated a late 703% surge in credential phishing and a 141% uptick in social engineering tactics, which were associated heavily with a major phishing campaign abusing DocuSign API.
Attacks are overwhelming traditional security measures
Email attacks have been rising steadily and consistently in the overall volume of phishing attacks. There has been a remarkable 202% increase in the number of phishing messages per 1,000 mailboxes.
Malicious attack links are often unknown zero-day threats
Traditional threat intelligence and signature-based detection methods are increasingly ineffective against modern, AI-powered attack campaigns.
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