The Ultimate Guide to Phishing
A curated UK edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Phishing.
What to know about Phishing
Phishing, a pervasive form of cybercrime, continues to evolve in sophistication and scale, posing significant risks to individuals and organisations worldwide. This tag gathers extensive insights into phishing tactics, including traditional email scams, spear-phishing, SMS phishing (smishing), and emerging AI-assisted attacks that exploit human vulnerabilities and trusted brand impersonations.
Recent stories highlight the increasing frequency and complexity of phishing attacks, such as operations targeting specific sectors like finance, industrial engineering, and healthcare. Reports reveal how cybercriminal groups adapt by leveraging multi-factor authentication exploits, brandjacking, and sophisticated social engineering to compromise credentials and infiltrate networks.
Readers exploring this tag will gain valuable understanding of how phishing attacks are conducted, who the most vulnerable targets are—from individual contributors to C-suite executives—and what measures organisations and individuals can take to mitigate risks. The tag also delves into cybersecurity solutions, training programs, and industry collaborations designed to bolster phishing resistance, emphasizing the critical role of combining technology, awareness, and proactive defense to combat this ever-changing threat landscape.
UK Phishing News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
MetaCompliance appoints Chief Product Officer & adds tools
Security teams are being given cleaner phishing data and less admin work after the platform added direct mailbox delivery, scheduled simulations and a new dashboard.
Hiscox finds UK small firms unclear on cyber cover
A survey of 1,000 owners suggests gaps in understanding may leave 754,000 UK small firms exposed to cyber and other claims.
Net-Defence joins Scottish Marketing Summit on cyber risk
Businesses are being urged to treat cyber security as a marketing and reputation issue, with digital channels now central to customer trust.
UK leads in spotting phishing but lags on reporting
Britons are more likely than peers abroad to spot phishing, but many still fail to flag suspicious messages, leaving scams to spread further.
Abnormal AI names Don Jeter as Chief Marketing Officer
The hire signals Abnormal AI's push to widen its reach beyond email security and win more enterprise business in the crowded AI security market.
Recruitment scams enter UK top 10, Virgin Media O2 warns
Young jobseekers are being targeted as fake offers rise to ninth place in Virgin Media O2's quarterly scam rankings.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Phishing
Financial firms face rising AI cyber risk, survey says
AI trust & governance seen as key to safe adoption
Financial services breach risk rises as AI adoption surges
KnowBe4 wins Frost & Sullivan email security award
Phishing costs rise to USD $51,948 per analyst yearly
Featured News
Expert Columns
How businesses can verify suspicious email requests
Six questions to ask your MDR provider
Cyber security now starts at the job interview
SOCtoberfest: The four habits that stop most attacks - passwords, MFA, phishing and patching
SOCtoberfest Kickoff: The 7 Deadly Sins of Cybersecurity Meet CISA's Core Steps
Why AI-Written Phishing Is Outpacing the Native Filters Built to Stop It
Fighting fraud at scale: Why entitlement servers are becoming central to telecoms security
Safeguarding, not victim-blaming: why fraud prevention needs a fundamental mindset shift
Simple but secure: solving blockchain's biggest UX challenge
The invisible trust layer: Why payments are becoming a systems problem
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent Phishing News
Ocean lands Fortune Cyber 60 nod for email security
The nod signals investor confidence in tools that can spot AI-generated phishing before it reaches hundreds of thousands of employee mailboxes worldwide.
ReliaQuest warns of proxy-backed cyber attacks on logins
Residential proxies are letting impostors bypass location checks and move quickly through cloud systems before defenders can spot the breach.
UK phishing links surge as Ireland sees colleague lures
UK firms are facing more malicious-link emails as Ireland sees a sharp rise in colleague impersonation and targeted lures.
Australia cyber attacks rise 39% as ransomware grows
Ransomware claims hit a record 1,063 victims in October, even as Australian organisations still faced 2,117 cyber attacks a week, up 39% year on year.
WatchGuard survey finds employees trust digital messages
Many workers still act on sensitive digital requests without checking the sender, raising the risk of AI-driven impersonation scams.
OXIL urges safeguarding shift as scam victims stay silent
Most suspected scam victims stay silent, leaving banks and police with little chance to intervene and recovery support often absent.
Web Hole attack targets AI agents via abandoned sites
AI agents could be tricked into harmful actions by search results pointing to expired domains that attackers can re-register and poison.
ExpressVPN adds browser web protection against scams
The browser add-on now blocks malicious and phishing pages in real time, even when subscribers are not connected to the VPN.
Lab 1 warns breach data now exposes thousands more firms
The findings show stolen files can reach far beyond the named victim, with the median breach now exposing data linked to 542 other organisations.
Candescent adds Memcyco to its banking marketplace
Banks and credit unions gain earlier warnings on phishing and account takeover as Candescent adds Memcyco to its marketplace.
Binance hack warns firms on compromised work laptops
Businesses should rethink laptop security after Binance said a work device may have opened the door to a USD $6.3 billion theft.
Acronis warns awareness gap leaves users open to hacks
Basic cyber hygiene is still patchy, with 35% of people not backing up data regularly as phishing and AI-driven attacks keep rising.
Scams overtake phishing as attacks grow shorter-lived
Scam detections nearly doubled to 6.4 million as criminals shifted to faster-moving fraud that can evade takedowns and hit consumers directly.
Akamai says online scams overtake phishing attacks
Scam detections roughly doubled to 6.4 million in the first quarter of 2026, signalling a shift that is widening fraud risk for businesses.
Google uncovers brief AOMEI supply chain malware attack
Systems that polled AOMEI's update servers at the wrong moment could have pulled malicious files in the brief April-to-July tampering window.
Hotejka scam network uses free hosting to target users
Researchers say the scheme has run since 2017, exposing users to fake Microsoft alerts and remote access theft through legitimate hosting tools.
Workforce identity attacks hit 91% of firms, study says
Most organisations now face employee identity attacks, with phishing and stolen credentials pushing insider risk into boardroom-level concern, a survey finds.
CrowdStrike finds AI agents running autonomous cyberattacks
CrowdStrike found four threat actors using AI agents to automate cyberattacks, compromising healthcare, government and private-sector organisations.
Proofpoint joins Microsoft ICES in Defender portal
Microsoft 365 customers can now review Proofpoint email threat alerts inside Defender, cutting the need to switch between security tools.
Global cyber attacks jump 48% as phishing rises
Organisations faced 2,803 attacks a week on average in September as phishing and ransomware added to pressure on corporate and public sector systems.