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In 2022, Uber's systems were breached by an 18-year-old. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) was active, but the attackers flooded an employee's phone with push requests until they approved one, just to stop the annoyance. Authentication worked as designed, and the attacker got in. This is, in general terms, an MFA fatigue attack. Fast forward to Q1 2025. Rapid7 found that more than 56% of all compromises resulted from stolen credentials where no MFA was in place.

More than 90% of successful cyberattacks start with email, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). That’s not because security teams lack tools, but because attackers target human decision-making. For years, organizations treated email security as a filtering problem: block enough malicious messages, and risk goes down. That assumption no longer holds.

Email attacks have become one of the key ways for hackers to target organizations and individuals. The sheer number of tools available has made it easier than ever for non-technical cybercriminals to launch sophisticated cyber attacks. As a result, many resources are available for each stage of the kill chain – from reconnaissance to delivery to weaponization. This article focuses on the second stage of the cyber kill chain – weaponization.

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Messaging platforms are now a major vector for phishing and other social engineering attacks, according to a new report from NCC Group’s Fox-IT. The researchers warn that legitimate messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Signal, LinkedIn, and Gmail-integrated messaging serve as avenues through which attackers can target users while evading email security filters.

Email-based threats are evolving faster than traditional solutions can keep up. According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, the use of synthetically generated text in malicious emails has doubled over the past two years. That makes it far more difficult to spot social engineering attacks like phishing, which trick users with deceptive messages.

Our increasing dependence on the internet and, specifically, email for business and personal communication has produced the perfect environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks. As organization’s technical controls have advanced, cybercriminals have evolved their attacks, making them more difficult for traditional email security solutions that use signature-based detection (such as Microsoft and secure email gateways (SEGs) to detect.

Phishing isn’t just increasing. It’s outpacing the way many organizations test for it. Attacks have surged 400% year over year, and corporate users are now more likely to be targeted by phishing than by malware. As social engineering becomes a primary entry point into enterprise environments, how you assess phishing risk matters just as much as how often you train for it.

Sending a work email to the wrong person – it’s something all of us have done at least once in our working lives. For some people, it’s a regular occurrence. But just how risky is it? Thinking back over your recent emails, you can probably pick out the ones that would have been worse to misdirect than others. In the best case it’s a non-issue or only slightly embarrassing.

For legal organizations, the integrity of communication isn't just a business requirement, it’s a foundational pillar of the profession. Whether it’s a sensitive case strategy, a confidential merger agreement, or personal client data, the information contained within firm emails represents an immense amount of trust and significant liability. However, as law firms increasingly migrate to cloud environments like Microsoft 365, they face a double-edged sword.