FRAUD & ID VERIFICATION

Tailored attacks against high-value sectors The Mimecast report shows that professional education, IT software, telecommunications, real estate and legal organisations experiencea much higher volume of impersonation attacks. Of these sectors, real estate was shown to have suffered particularly higher phishing attack attempts.

The report uncovered phishing campaigns using email impersonation and large-scale credential harvesting, that were used to target specific hospitality industry professionals.

“ Cyber defence can no longer be treated solely as a technology issue,” says Mimecast Chief Information Security Officer, Leslie Nielsen.

“ It’ s equally about people and organisational resilience.”

“ Countering these threats requires organisations to adapt by preparing employees to recognise suspicious activity and leveraging tools like AI internally to enhance both business workflows and security operations.

“ As threat actors continue to target the human layer through deception, trust exploitation and multichannel coordination, building awareness and resilient response capabilities becomes critical.” fintechmagazine. com 127