KnowBe4-Phishing-Threat-Trends-Report-Volume7-2026.md

The report summarizes Q1 2026 phishing trends, emphasizing a shift to AI-enabled, highly targeted campaigns that exploit collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams), calendar invites, and Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) reverse proxies to bypass MFA and secure email gateways. It highlights large-scale adoption of agentic tools and crime-as-a-service toolkits, timing strategies that target business hours, rising evasion of SEGs, and recommends adopting behavioral analytics and real-time threat intelligence to mitigate these sophisticated phishing threats.