Gmail accounts are used in 91% of all baiting email attacks

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Bait attacks are on the rise, and it appears that actors who distribute this special kind of phishing emails prefer to use Gmail accounts to conduct their attacks.
According to a report by Barracuda, who surveyed 10,500 organizations, 35% of them received at least one bait attack email in September 2021 alone.

What is a baiting attack?​

A "bait attack" is a sub-class of phishing where threat actors attempt to gather basic information about a specific target and use it for more targeted and effective attacks in the future.

It is a preparatory reconnaissance step that seldom comes with payloads or embedded links on the email body.
Although some of these emails contain a basic question or something that has higher chances of receiving a response, many don't include any text at all.
 

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