Fraudsters find more success with getting phishing campaigns delivered as well as with open and click rates when sending from an existing, known and trusted email address. This may be why a recent report found that 20 percent of phishing email attacks against employees are sent from email addresses a fraudster has taken over. Most
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In partnership with another Alphabet group company, Google recently released a way for consumers to test their skills in detecting phishing emails. It includes eight simulated emails based on characteristics of real phishing attacks, where the user is to indicate whether each email is legitimate or fake. According to a recent survey, 83 percent of
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According to a recent survey from ProofPoint, more than 80 percent of information security (infosec) professionals saw an increase in phishing attacks in 2018 while nearly two-thirds reported an increase in spear phishing. Meanwhile, those who reported compromised accounts as a result of phishing attacks increased from 38 percent of infosec professionals in 2017 to
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According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, who just released their 2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report, the number of data breaches fell by nearly 25 percent compared to 2017, but the number of compromised records containing personally identifiable information (PII) more than doubled to 446.5 million. Although the total number of data breaches declined in
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