Security News Email a Top Attack Vector, Users Can't ID a Fake

[silversurfer]

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/email-a-top-attack-vector-users/

Emails continue to be cyber-criminals' vector of choice for distributing malware and phishing, according to a report released today by Proofpoint.

The Quarterly Threat Report Q3 2018 found that the frequency of email fraud attacks and the number of individuals targeted per organization are continuing to rise. Credential-stealing banking Trojans comprised 94% of malicious payloads, and the number of malicious URLs grew, making it a more common attack vector than malicious attachments.

https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/pfpt-us-tr-q318-quarterly-threat-report.pdf

 

[shmu26]

Interesting article. Ransomware is down to 1% of email-based attacks. RATs are only 4%.
We are talking about the wrong stuff a lot of the time...

 

[TairikuOkami]

So URL and browser protection are essential, who knew.