- Phishing attacks are more common than ever
- New research shows that Microsoft imitators are aimed at users
- These aim to steal credentials and victims information.
Phishing attacks exceed the tables for the most popular intrusion points for cybercounts over and over again, and the new research of Check Point reveals that the most commonly imitated companies for the first quarter of 2025. The criminals that are passed through Microsoft were, with much, the most common, which represents 36% of the social engineering attacks observed in the study.
Google and Apple are then presented, which represents 12% and 8% respectively, which means that more than half of all incidents (56%) come from a false direction associated with one of those three brands.
However, a remarkable change is in an ascent of MasterCard impersonations: with a discovered fraudulent website campaign, mainly aimed at Japanese users and trying to steal confidential financial information of the victims who use a false website and incite users to enter their card numbers and CVV.
Trend attacks
As expected, research shows that technology is the most personified sector for attacks in the first quarter of 20225, most likely more and more people use services, and because criminals can promote users to enter credentials with scams of ‘password restoration’ or attract victims to a malicious place, especially given confidence granted to these services.
This is not the first time that researchers have identified Microsoft as the most commonly imitated company in Phishing scams, and the best way to stay safe against phishing is to be hypervigilant: twice verifying any email address for discrepancies and never clicking on a link from a non -verified source.
“As we advance until 2025, organizations and users must remain alert about the evolutionary threat of phishing attacks,” says Check Point.
“The most frequent brands are not just family names: they are entrance doors to confidential personal and financial information. Cyber security awareness, combined with robust protection strategies such as multifactor authentication (MFA), can help minimize the risk of being a victim of these increasingly sophisticated scams.”
