Security News > 2019 > May > C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches

C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Senior executives are 12x more likely to be the target of social incidents, and 9x more likely to be the target of social breaches than in previous years – and financial motivation remains the key driver. Financially-motivated social engineering attacks (12 percent of all data breaches … More → The post C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches appeared first on Help Net Security.

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