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Top Five Industries Aggressively Targeted By Phishing Attacks

Cybercriminals are targeting the finance, insurance, manufacturing, mining, healthcare and retail industries using a tactic called subject redaction. They use personal information to create personalized phishing emails. These mimic legitimate business communications, encouraging recipients to engage with malicious content. Seasonal fluctuations and correlations between email themes and threat actors have been observed in such attacks. Subject redaction is most prevalent in the second half of the year, despite fluctuations in frequency, highlighting the evolving strategies of cybercriminals.

Source: gbhackers.com –

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