Cofense, the leading provider of email security awareness training (SAT) and advanced phishing detection and response (PDR) solutions, today announced a first-of-its-kind, fully managed and customizable vishing security solution. This new Cofense solution trains employees to identify and report vishing threats that bypass a company’s secure email gateways (SEGs).
Cofense has combined its industry-leading, real-world simulations with a new voice response technology to create a unique security offering that helps enterprise organizations protect against these dangerous vishing threats.
“To illustrate the devastating power of this type of attack, vishing was used successfully in the recent crippling cyberattacks on the MGM casinos,” said Jason Reinard, Senior Vice President of Product Engineering at Cofense.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, last year alone, over $1.2 billion was lost to vishing attacks, and this threat is predicted to grow exponentially in 2024. And while vishing’s primary attack method is thought to be tied only to voice communications, according to a 2022 report from Trellix, over 85% of vishing attacks came from free email services.
Vishing emails can easily bypass traditional security measures, like SEGs, because the contents of the email do not contain malicious, detectable links. These missing indicators make it easy for threat actors to leverage email to impersonate trusted people within an organization, convincing untrained employees to call a unique phone number. Once called, the employee engages verbally in a convincing conversation or message and is tricked into divulging sensitive information...Read More!
