Phishing attacks on the rise in 2018

guest · Jan 25, 2019

Phishing attacks on the rise in 2018
Vishing and smishing attacks also rise as criminals spread the net wider
January 25, 2019
https://www.itproportal.com/news/phishing-attacks-on-the-rise-in-2018/

A new report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, based on a poll of 7,000 workers in the US, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK, found that 83 per cent of respondents experienced a phishing attack last year, up from 76 per cent the year before. Spear phishing, vishing (telephone phishing) and smishing (SMS phishing) were all up.

Don’t worry if you don’t know these terms, you’re not the only one. The survey has shown that 66 per cent of adults identified phishing correctly, 45 per cent ransomware, 23 per cent smishing, and 18 per cent vishing.

What’s more, compromised accounts are now a more common result of successful phishing attacks than malware infections, for the first time in history. Phishing attacks that resulted in data loss have more than tripled in the last two years.
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State of the Phish - 2019 Report (PDF): https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/pfpt-us-tr-state-of-the-phish-2019.pdf

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