Fortra's 2025 Email Threat Report Predicts Standard Security Measures Fall Short in the Wake of AI

Fortra Report Reveals How Breaches Are Fueling Hyper-Personalized Email Attacks

The latest email threat landscape report from cybersecurity solutions provider Fortra identifies how stolen personal data is being leveraged to curate very detailed email attacks. Almost all these attacks are social engineering or phishing attacks, often across multiple channels, with the misuse of legitimate tools adding to the obfuscation targeted victims must contend with.  For [...]

Fortra's 2025 Email Threat Report Predicts Standard Security Measures Fall Short in the Wake of AI

99% of Unblocked Email Threats Were Social Engineering Attacks or Contained Phishing Links Fortra, a global cybersecurity software and services provider, published the 2025 Email Threat Intelligence Report. Fortra analysts and researchers evaluated over one million unblocked email threats from 2024 to understand how threat actors are bypassing common email security measures to target unsuspecting employees. The report’s predictions and actionabl…

With AI supercharging phishing attacks, what is the weakest link? - CybersecAsia

Employees trained on phishing-awareness: Check! Corporate cybersecurity systems exhaustively patched: Check! Weakest link: endless critical OS/email vulnerabilities and Zero Days. In the past two years, the increasing use of generative AI in weaponizing phishing emails (and related attacks) to new heights of sophistication has become a given. While organizations have gone on to send staff for phishing-awareness training, IT teams have been bolst…