Evolving Phishing Attacks Easily Bypass Legacy Security
Phishing is a cybercrime tactic that involves sending unsolicited emails, typically with call to action URLs, seeming to originate from legitimate organization. The goal is to deceive individuals into providing sensitive information such as personal details, financial data, or login credentials. This attack type is so prevalent that roughly 3.4 billion phishing emails are sent each day, which is about 1.2% of all emails sent.
These call-to-action URLs—typically malicious pages built for data theft, or malware hosting —employ extensive evasion techniques, such as CAPTCHAs, hosting on trusted platforms, redirects, CDN-based hosting etc., to conceal their destination or malicious payload. These evasive tactics are built by threat actors and malicious AI, to bypass traditional defenses and reach end users."
Bottom line: Traditional email security tools have been rendered ineffective by new techniques. Employees are the only line of defense—increasing risk, and decreasing productivity.
Phishing Attacks are Evolving - To the Power of AI
With AI automation tools like FraudGPT and low-cost models like DeepSeek, phishing campaigns are now more scalable, precise, and varied than ever before. Attackers bypass security with highly convincing, industry-specific messages that reach, and exploit, employees.
AI eliminates the human effort needed to scale phishing to the scale—and speed—of SPAM
Stopping Phishing Without Chasing Links
Inception Cyber doesn't rely on traditional phishing defenses like URL scanning, domain reputation analysis, or detonation of URLs in sandboxes. These legacy defenses can be bypassed by evasive techniques that conceal the final landing phishing pages from detection during the scanning process, so NACETM takes a radically different approach:
NACETM stops evasive phishing URLs and malicious call to action URLs by analyzing the intent of the email itself, and using it as a feature set for decision making, eliminating the need to rely on final landing URLs.
See our walkthroughs and step-by-step breakdowns of real-world evasive phishing and malicious URL attacks, and how Inception Cyber NACETM stops them when other technologies can't.
Whether you're looking to add defense in depth, replace a legacy secure email gateway, or just see whether employee behavior-based tools are actually as good as they promise, we welcome every chance to go head-to-head with the previous generations of email security.
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