Massive Growth in the Percept Of Phishing Attack Since 2021 Approximately Counting To 625%
                     Massive Growth in the Percept Of Phishing  
Attack Since 2021 Approximately Counting  
To 625%
Hello friends welcome to the world of “the hacker newz” in the recent world  
we are facing the increasing number of cyber attack cases thus getting a hype  
day by day and so the methodologies taken in use are also becoming modern  
and numerous to give the deceit to the victim with a great ease.
The one of most popular methodology that is now becoming most common in  
use by Hackers is the hybrid forms of phishing attack that is having the  
combination of email and voice social engineering calls via the way of breach in  
the corporate networks for some kind of ransomware and the data extortion  
attacks.
Increase In Volume Of Cyber Phishing Attack With 
 Massive Growith In Percentage Of 625%
According to cyber-intelligence report of Agari Q2 2022, there have been an  
increase in the volume of phishing having the increase of 6% in comparison to  
the Q1 2022. However, the use of 'hybrid vishing' is seen having a massive  
growth of 625%.
Vishing which is also known as "voice phishing," having involvement of some  
kind of a phone call for the social engineering attack performed upon a victim.  
The hybrid form of it is known by the name thus calling it out as "call-back
phishing, "having the mail thus being included also before the call, having a  
typical presentation made to the victim with a fake subscription/invoice notice.
Then the advice is given to the recipient for making a call on the phone number  
i.e., provided for resolution of any kind of issues with the charge, but instead of  
a real customer support agent, the answer to the call is made by the phishing  
actors.
Then the offer is presented in front of the victim by the scammers to make a  
resolution to the problem i.e., presented by tricking the victim into the  
sensitive information disclosure or the installation of the remote desktop tools  
on their system. Then the remote connection is made remotely with the device  
of the victim by the threat actor for the further backdoor install further or thus  
making it being spreaded to other machines.
History Of Call Back Phishing Attacks Spreading
Its Web In The Cyber Crime World At A Great  
Pace
The introduction of the call back phishing attacks was first made by the 'Bazar  
Call/ Baza Call' campaigns that was having made the appearance made in  
month of March 2021 for gaining the initial access to the corporate networks  
for some kind of ransomware attacks.
The working of the attack went so well with the perfection that the adoption of  
same technique was made by the multiple ransomware and extortion gangs,  
such as Quantum, Zeon, and Silent Ransom Group for gaining the initial  
network access through an unsuspecting employee.
Growth Chart Of Hybrid Vishing Attacks In Q2
On having made the statistical analysis of the hybrid Vishing the reach of a six-  
quarter high was achieved in Q2, thus getting an increase of 625% from Q1  
2021. This threat type also made the contribution to 24.6% of the overall share  
of Response-Based threats as shown in detail by the report of Agari.
"While this is the second quarter of the hybrid vishing attacks having the  
declination of in share due to the overall increase of response-based threats,  
while there was the steady increase in the vishing volume count over the  
course of the year."
Surge Of Emotet On Rise And Then Death 
 Faced Again
The Emotet botnet that was in the habit of making surging and then the  
vacations were being taken long , which is what is taken in observation by us  
with the malware.
According to Agari, a significant surge of the Emotet botnet was seen in Q2  
thus making the replacement of Q Bot in the campaigns. The two collectively  
accounting was made for 90.2% of all malware in user inboxes.
The attribution of the Emotet’s return was given to the crime syndication of  
the Conti crime syndicate who made the original developer to be convinced for
making the relaunching of the operations. However, since there was shut of  
the operations of brand Conti ransomware in the year 2022, the email  
campaigns were again made to be ceased by the Emotet malware.
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