Phishing is one of the internet’s oldest online threats. Its history traces back to the mid-1990s, but it unfortunately continues to escalate in numbers. Based on social engineering, phishing can be delivered to an email address or through an SMS message with a URL inside. It can even come from inside a document saved locally on the recipient’s endpoint.
Phishing attacks have been successful throughout the years because:
They trigger the basic human instinct to act.
They have become more convincing than ever and are difficult for recipients to visually detect.
