Security News > 2019 > March > Report: Half of Breaches Trace to Hacking, Malware Attacks
2019-03-26 19:18
Business Email Compromise and Payroll Portal Hacks Are Surging, Beazley WarnsBeazley Breach Response Services, a unit of global insurance company Beazley, reports that nearly half of the more than 3,300 breaches it investigated last year traced to a hack attack or malware infection. And half of those hacking/malware attacks were tied to business email compromise schemes.
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