Phishing Is Moving From Email to Mobile. Is Your Security?

Email security may no longer be enough, as phishing moves beyond the inbox and expands across mobile and other channels. Recent data from TechMagic shows that 41% of phishing incidents now employ multichannel tactics, including SMS (smishing), voice calls (vishing), and QR codes (quishing), with attackers turning to mobile-first platforms such as text, iMessage, WhatsApp, and social direct messages.

These attacks are harder to spot and more likely to succeed because they target the human behind the screen across channels, not just email. To counter this shift, emerging security approaches are using AI-driven defenses and large language models to identify content and intent in real time, aiming to flag or block suspicious messages before users engage.

The article notes that traditional email protections remain important, but spend on mobile channels has often been minimal, a gap that needs addressing in light of the mobile human layer being increasingly targeted. Fortune Business Insights is cited as projecting the email security market to grow from $5.17 billion in 2025 to $10.68 billion by 2032, with a CAGR of 10.9%.