US Finance Under Phishing Pressure: What the SOC Data Reveals?

With modern campaigns such as Vercel-hosted RMM attacks , the scale and security impact of phishing in US finance should not be understated. As threats get increasingly harder to detect, the phishing challenge raises the stakes in the industry.

Legitimate services and tools used in daily workflows across corporate America are increasingly abused to deliver phishing attacks or disguise malicious activity. Identity-based attacks let threat actors spread across an organization from a single, barely detectable entry point.

At the same time, malware itself is only part of the problem. Operational gaps inside SOCs also contribute to the issue.

ANY.RUN investigation data shows how several cybersecurity pressures come together for financial-sector security teams, leading to higher phishing exposure and heavier workloads for individual analysts.