Over half of organizations were successfully phished in 2019

2020-01-24 05:30

Nearly 90 percent of global organizations were targeted with BEC and spear phishing attacks in 2019, reflecting cybercriminals' continued focus on compromising individual end users, a Proofpoint survey reveals.

The volume of reported messages jumped significantly year over year, with end users reporting more than nine million suspicious emails in 2019, an increase of 67 percent over 2018.

More than half of surveyed organizations dealt with at least one successful phishing attack in 2019, and infosecurity professionals reported a high frequency of social engineering attempts across a range of methods.

88 percent of organizations worldwide reported spear-phishing attacks in 2019, 86 percent reported BEC attacks, 86 percent reported social media attacks, 84 percent reported SMS/text phishing, 83 percent reported voice phishing, and 81 percent reported malicious USB drops.

Globally, 63 percent of organizations take corrective action with users who repeatedly make mistakes related to phishing attacks.

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