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Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate
2019-02-01 06:00

Account takeover-based (ATO) attacks now comprise 20 percent of advanced email attacks, according to Agari’s Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report. ATO attacks are dangerous because they are more difficult to detect than traditional attacks – compromised accounts seem legitimate to email filters and end users alike because they are sent from a real sender’s email account. “Credential phishing was already a huge risk for organizations because of the potential for data … More → The post Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate appeared first on Help Net Security.


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