It is a method of stealing money, or your identity, by attempting to get you to reveal personal information through websites that pretend to be legitimate websites, such as credit cards, bank details, or passwords, that aim to get you to reveal your personal information. Cybercriminals often pose as reputable companies, friends, or acquaintances and send fake messages with a link to a phishing website.
By enticing people to reveal personal information like passwords and credit card numbers, phishing attacks are intended to steal sensitive data or damage it by damaging users’ computers.
Even script kiddies have constructed convincing, effective phishing attacks against businesses using a service never heard of before, called phishing-as-a-service (PaaS).
As many organizations around the world use the Microsoft 365 cloud-based productivity platform, it has become one of the most valuable targets for cybercriminals. These criminals use it to steal data and credentials to compromise their networks.
During a Cisco Talos research update, researchers explained how phishing activity on the Greatness platform exploded between December 2022 and March 2023. This was when the platform was launched in mid-2022.
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