Fortra Report Reveals How Breaches Are Fueling Hyper-Personalized Email Attacks

The latest email threat landscape report from cybersecurity solutions provider Fortra identifies how stolen personal data is being leveraged to curate very detailed email attacks. Almost all these attacks are social engineering or phishing attacks, often across multiple channels, with the misuse of legitimate tools adding to the obfuscation targeted victims must contend with.

For the report, Fortra analyzed data from more than 1 million email threats received by corporate users in 2024 to inform its comprehensive report, which identifies trends and makes predictions. Although the situation is undoubtedly concerning now, Fortra believes that Generative AI (Gen AI) will only make the threat landscape more difficult to navigate.

Attackers are Adapting

The first trend they identified was that virtually all the threats they saw – 99 % of email threats reaching corporate user inboxes in 2024 – could be categorized as either response-based social engineering attacks or phishing attacks that ...