B
Evidence Grade B
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Current
95%
95% -- share of cyber threat campaigns starting with phishing for cyber threat campaigns (2026)
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Value
95%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
area1security.com
Primary
Tier C
https://www.area1security.com/phishing/ ↗
Source Article
Types Of Email Phishing Attacks & Solutions
Original Research
area1security.com
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Vendor claim on phishing definition page; no methodology stated
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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cyber threat campaigns: 95% share of cyber threat campaigns starting with phishing. Source: area1security.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/phishing-first-phase-cyber-threat-campaigns
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