What is vishing?
Voice phishing, or vishing, is phishing carried out by phone call or voicemail. The caller poses as someone trusted, such as IT support, a bank, a vendor or an executive, and talks the target into sharing credentials, approving an MFA prompt or making a payment.
How it works
Help desk impersonation is a common pattern: the attacker calls the service desk as an employee and asks for a password or MFA reset, or calls an employee as the service desk. AI voice cloning and real-time voice tools make callers more convincing.
Vishing often follows another touch, such as an email or text that tells the target to expect a call.
Why it matters
A live conversation creates pressure that an email cannot. People who have practiced a vishing call are far better placed to pause and verify.
How Living Security helps
Living Security Voice Phishing (Vishing) runs AI phone calls that talk back, then coach, and the result scores into the Human Risk Index.
