You're Invited to get Phished! Why Invitation-themed Emails Remain Effective

**Executive summary:** Cofense Intelligence reports a sustained rise in invitation-themed phishing campaigns that spoof popular e-invitation platforms (Punchbowl, Evite, Paperless Post, Greenvelope) to deliver credential-phishing pages and abused remote access tools (ConnectWise RAT, Datto RMM), using device fingerprinting to serve different payloads to desktops and mobiles from a single URL; the report includes ATR examples, observed IOCs, and recommended mitigations such as MFA, allowlisting, email security checks, and user awareness training.