The rise of phishing

More than 320,000 peo­ple report­ed being a vic­tim of phish­ing in the US in 2021 accord­ing to the FBI, up by a third com­pared to the pre­vi­ous year. It is by far the biggest cause of cyber­crime and can have dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences on peo­ple and busi­ness­es. Yet organ­i­sa­tions con­tin­ue to be caught out as
hack­ers take advan­tage of the Covid pan­dem­ic and the abil­i­ty to be more per­son­al in their attacks