In phishing scams, hackers pose as trusted figures to trick people into handing over passwords.<br /><br />The FBI says phishers are proliferating. In fact, they stole over $57 million from more than 114,000 victims in the US last year.<br /><br />And according to Business Insider, their techniques are getting increasingly sophisticated. <br /><br />Hackers will start by targeting low-level employees, then "moving laterally" to compromise executives' accounts.<br /><br />Scammers also string together phishing attacks by compromising small businesses and leveraging their trust with larger business partners they work with.<br /><br />But 'spear phishers' put extensive effort into targeting a specific person, often<br />creating multiple misleading pages to trick them.<br /><br />'Typosquatters' buy domains that are slight misspelling of popular websites, like goggle.com or yuube.com.<br /><br />The tactic was a mainstay of the early days of the internet, but has recently seen a resurgence.
