UK-based specialist insurer Hiscox recently released its “Cyber Readiness Report 2022”. One key outcome: Phishing emails are still the main gateway by which cyber criminals gain access to company networks.

Zscaler’s Threatlabz research team has just released new facts and figures on phishing attacks around the globe. The sheer number is reported to have risen by 29 percent over the past year, while at the same time the “bad guys” have been deploying new, even more cunning approaches against the enhanced bulwarks set up to defend companies.