Vishing

Vishing is a type of social engineering attack that uses voice calls to scam people. The attacker will call a victim and pose as a representative from a legitimate organization, such as a bank or credit card company. The attacker will then try to extract personal information from the victim.

Interest in Vishing grew 20% over the past year, compared to the year before, putting it at a current volume of 150K searches per month, as of last month.