CyberheistNews Vol 16 #13 The 'Urgency Trap': Why Time Pressure Is Your Biggest Email Red Flag
KnowBe4, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The 'Urgency Trap': Why Time Pressure is Your Biggest Email Red Flag
The old rules for spotting a phishing email are changing. Remember looking for bad grammar and clumsy spelling? Thanks to AI, hackers' emails are increasingly polished and hard to spot. But a new poll from KnowBe4 reveals the modern worker's most reliable alarm bell for a cyberattack isn't a typo; it's a sense of manufactured urgency.