3 Phishing Trends Organizations Should Watch Out For

This report summarizes phishing trends observed in 2019–2020, highlighting how attackers increase legitimacy through SSL/TLS certificates, open-redirect abuse, and punycode homograph domains, and how commoditized services like phishing-as-a-service and templates lower the bar for attackers; it describes impacts including credential theft, BEC financial losses, malware infections, and targeted ransomware, and offers practical mitigation steps (monitor domains, enforce DMARC/SPF/DKIM, MFA, employee training).