Friday, 24 March, 2023

72% of cyberattacks related to COVID-19 comes via fake 'trusted' emails

<p>Cyber criminals are using COVID-19 cures and donations themes in scamming attacks to compromise email accounts in Indian firms. In fact, 72% of COVID -19-related attacks today are scamming or spear-phishing emails, sent mostly from a trusted source. Just for facts, 36% of overall attacks come from scammers, 13 % from internally compromised accounts. A massive 71% attacks include malicious URLs, only 30% of BEC attacks included a link.</p>