How To Identify A Phishing Website
KnowBe4, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Our increasing dependence on the internet and, specifically, email for business and personal communication has produced the perfect environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks.
As organization's technical controls have advanced, cybercriminals have evolved their attacks, making them more difficult for traditional email security solutions that use signature-based detection (such as Microsoft and secure email gateways (SEGs) to detect. These attacks are also more difficult for people to spot as well. In results published from a phishing simulation, 53% of employees opened phishing emails and 23% input data into a form. Only 7% of employees reported the simulation to the Security team.
These numbers are concerning when you consider how costly data breaches can be for businesses. IBM estimates that the average cost reached $4.4m in 2025.