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Hacker Personas Explained: Know Your Enemy and Protect Your Business

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In fact, our 2020 Threat Report found that impersonators are now imitating legitimate business websites to release malicious payloads or steal data, and a shocking 27% of phishing sites use HTTPS to trick the user into clicking phishing links, which makes these attacks even more dangerous.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

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Threats abound in 2021. In 2021, we witnessed so many competing shifts, many of which we detailed early on in our 2021 BrightCloud® Threat Report. The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Ransomware.