The shift I saw in phishing attacks over just 6 months

I work IT for a small school district in Ohio and I've noticed a big change in the emails we get. About a year ago, most phishing attempts were pretty obvious with bad grammar and weird links. But starting around March this year, they got way more polished. Now they use real school logos, copy our internal language, and even fake signatures from our superintendent. Just last week one requested a wire transfer for a fake vendor invoice that looked almost perfect. Has anyone else seen these smarter scams hitting their workplace recently?

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anna_green486d ago

That's a bit overblown honestly. The phishing problem isn't worse now. People just got more paranoid after that big ransomware news cycle. Had the same emails hitting our district for years now. The grammar was always decent. The logos too. Most of these "smarter" scams are just recycled templates from five years ago. Your team probably just stopped paying attention for a while. The real issue is training fatigue not smarter criminals.