---
title: "Vishing attacks: What they are and how organizations can protect themselves"
metaTitle: "Vishing Protection for Orgs"
slug: org-vishing-protection
date: "2022-06-03T10:00:00-05:00"
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/vishing-attacks-how-organizations-can-protect-themselves.webp"
  alt: Elevated telephone wires lined with birds.
sourcePublisher:
  name: HelpNet Security
  url: www.helpnetsecurity.com
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/06/03/increased-vishing-cases-video/"
legacySlug: vishing-attacks-how-organizations-can-protect-themselves
tags: [Phone Scam, Smishing, STIR/SHAKEN, Vishing]
status: published
---

Vishing (voice phishing) involves defrauding people over the phone. Vishing cases have increased almost 550 percent during 2021, and vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise (BEC) as the second most reported response-based email threat since Q3 2021.

In this video for Help Net Security, Eric George, Director of Solutions Engineering, PhishLabs, talks about this constantly evolving threat...