Friday, 24 March, 2023

IT staffers receive 40 targeted phishing attacks in a year

<p>A report by Barracuda said that on average IT staffers receive 40 targeted phishing attacks in a year. The analysis was done between May 2020 and June 2021 on 12mn+ spear phishing and social engineering attacks impacting over 3 mn mailboxes at over 17,000 organizations. 10% of all social engineering attacks were found to be BECs. In a year, an enterprise faces 700 social engineering attacks with 43% of phishing attacks copying Microsoft.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>