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Phishing protection refers to the tools, strategies, and technologies used to detect and prevent cybercriminals from impersonating your brand, stealing credentials, and defrauding your customers. As attackers move faster and impersonate more convincingly, brands need more than just domain scans or email authentication to stay protected. Many security and digital teams rely on email filters, takedown services, or brand education to manage phishing risks.

A phishing campaign is targeting Instagram users with phony notifications about failed login attempts, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Notably, the emails contain "mailto" links rather than traditional URLs, which help the phishing messages avoid being flagged by security filters. "Instead of linking to a phishing website, which is most common with emails like this, both the ‘Report this user’ and ‘Remove your email address’ links are mailto links," the researchers write.

The BlueVoyant Security Operations Center (SOC) recently responded to a client’s user accessing a potentially malicious link that further research identified as part of a recent, robust campaign aimed at stealing Twilio SendGrid credentials. The attack was investigated by BlueVoyant’s Threat Fusion Cell (TFC) to understand how it can bypass email filters, and how it likely targeted IT departments.

It seems everyone loves phishing attacks. Trustwave's Ed Williams, Vice President of SpiderLabs, during a recent Trustwave webinar, discussed the ongoing threat posed by the increasingly sophisticated phishing incidents that remain the primary vector for initial access in cyberattacks. What Williams interestingly noted was that threat actors are not the only group using phishing to gain access to organizations.

Cybercriminals have changed tactics. Credential phishing has overtaken ransomware as the most common way to breach enterprise networks. What started as amateur email scams is now an industrial operation with nation-state precision. Phishing campaigns today mimic real user behavior so well that even trained employees fall for fake login pages, social engineering calls, and credential traps. If attackers get credentials, they skip the noise and walk right through the digital front door.