Creates a sense of immediate need or danger to prompt recipients to take swift actions. Phishing emails often claim urgent security issues or time-sensitive matters

Psychological manipulation to trick individuals into divulging information or taking actions. Common in phishing attacks to exploit human psychology

Impersonating internal departments or colleagues within an organization to deceive recipients. Often used to gain trust or manipulate users into taking specific actions

Pretending to be a high-level executive to gain trust, request sensitive information, or instruct recipients under the guise of executive authority

Manipulating information presented in phishing emails to add credibility or deceive recipients. This technique involves providing specific details, such as user names, locations, or IP addresses, to create a sense of legitimacy and urgency

Falsifying information to mislead recipients about the origin of a message. Common in email phishing, altering sender addresses or header information

Using QR codes to deliver malicious content or direct users to phishing websites. Attackers disguise harmful URLs within QR codes, exploiting the trust associated with scanning codes

Using characters with similar appearances to deceive recipients. Attackers substitute visually similar characters to create URLs or email addresses that look legitimate but lead to malicious destinations

Abusing API integrations to deceive recipients into granting unauthorized access to sensitive data or functionalities

Typosquatting entails registering domains with slight misspellings or variations of legitimate ones. Attackers utilize these deceptive domains to lure users into visiting malicious websites or disclosing sensitive information

Link Spoofing disguises malicious URLs as legitimate links in plain text emails, leading to different, often malicious, destinations when clicked, deceiving recipients