The Top Phishing Lures Targeting Manufacturers Revealed by Trustwave SpiderLabs

• As detailed in the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the manufacturing sector with sophisticated phishing tactics, exploiting both human behavior and trusted platforms.
• Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers uncover the most prevalent phishing lures—file-sharing notifications, HR documents, fake payment receipts, and more—used to deceive employees and compromise organizations.
• Learn how Trustwave MailMarshal’s multi-layered defense provides protection beyond the common secure email gateway and helps detect and block over 99.99% of email-based threats before they ever reach your inbox.

Threat actors who rely on email phishing scams as their primary method of gaining initial entry use a wide variety of social engineering lures to trick their victims.