3 Lesser-Known but Common Phishing Techniques & Steps for Mitigation

This blog post explains several phishing tactics used by threat actors—including hijacking active email threads, harvesting out-of-office replies for reconnaissance, and abusing or stealing domain infrastructure (typo-squatting and domain hijacking)—illustrates how these increase success rates for delivering malware or credential theft, and provides mitigation recommendations such as limiting shared information, monitoring typo-squatted domains, implementing SPF/DMARC/DKIM, enforcing multi-factor authentication, and employee phishing reporting and training.