Phishing and Smishing Simulations

Nimblr runs advanced phishing and smishing simulations based on real-world attack data. Every simulation uses realistic sender profiles, local context, and current threat intelligence, so your team encounters the scams actually targeting organizations like yours, right now, whether they land in an inbox or a text message.

Simulations are personalized using your organization's own data: executive names, your logo, internal software, and more. This level of customization makes each simulation harder to spot, which is exactly the point.

To keep simulations unpredictable, send timing varies automatically. Users can't learn to expect a test on a particular day or time, they have to stay sharp continuously, on email and mobile alike.

The simulations are selected per user based on their individual history. Someone who repeatedly misses fake sender cues gets more of those. Someone who clicks on reward-based lures gets targeted there instead. Someone who's vulnerable to a text from an unknown number gets more smishing exposure. This behavioral targeting maximizes learning impact for each individual.

A simulation only works if it prepares people for what they'll actually encounter. Attackers don't send obviously fake emails with spelling errors and suspicious links anymore, and they don't stop at email. They research their targets, spoof trusted senders, time their attacks around real business events, and increasingly move to SMS, where people tend to be less guarded and more likely to click without thinking.

Smishing has grown into one of the fastest-moving threats in this category. A text message that appears to come from a delivery service, a bank, or a colleague can bypass the instincts people have built up around email, simply because it arrives somewhere that still feels informal and personal. Training people only on email leaves this entire attack surface uncovered.

This is why Nimblr treats smishing as a core simulation type, not an afterthought. If the training your team receives doesn't reflect the sophistication and range of what's actually out there, the confidence it builds is false. Realistic simulations, across every channel attackers use, are what turn awareness into a skill people can actually rely on when it counts.

Each simulated attack is linked to a customized reminder for users who are tricked into clicking a link, opening an attachment, or replying to a suspicious text. This reminder is called Nimblr instant learning and displays the message that tricked the user, along with interactive tips on what to do differently next time. Along with specific tips, the user is also offered an optional training module tied to the current simulation.