Phishing has been around forever. It's not slowing down—it's just getting sneakier. The lures look more legit, the timing's better, and the whole thing is built to slip past both your filters and your people.
The 2026 State of Phishing report walks through the trends that defined the past year and gives you a practical way to turn your people from a soft spot into your strongest layer.
What you'll find inside
Why PDFs now make up over half of all malicious file attachments
The brands and services attackers love to impersonate
How fake urgency drives more than 30% of phishing emails
The psychological tricks designed to beat a quick gut-check
A practical playbook to tighten your phishing defenses
Why phishing keeps winning
It's fast and it's human. The median time for someone to click a link and hand over information is under a minute. You can't patch your way out of that. You close the gap by training people and watching what happens after the click.
Turn your people into the defense
The best phishing defense pairs sharper people with faster detection. Security Awareness Training builds the instinct to pause, and Huntress watches for the phishing-driven activity, like suspicious mailbox rules or odd logins that signal a click already landed.
Download the report to see the full phishing picture and the playbook to stay ahead of it.
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