It’s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 — the promise of financial assistance, the stress of financial hardship — to target people across the globe via phishing attacks .  \r\n Keeping up with the speed at which these attacks have been evolving adds another layer of complexity, especially now that phishing as a service is a turnkey business. For example, criminals — using a kit they’ve purchased on the dark web — even employ fake SMS messages from financial institutions to lure unsuspecting victims into sharing their login credentials. One such kit, Kr3pto, has been linked to 4,000+ SMS phishing campaigns, targeting the customers of major banks in the U.S. and U.K.…