Security News > 2020 > July > Phishing: Email fraudsters are impersonating colleagues, customers, and vendors, report says
2020-07-17 16:30
The latest form of business email phishing attacks involve impersonating familiar senders, a GreatHorn report found.
GreatHorn also acknowledged this uptick the report noted that this view isn't fully adequate in understanding how phishing email attacks are evolving, and how security teams are responding to those threats.
Some 35% of respondents said that people impersonation attacks ranked as their top email threat in 2020, according to the report.
Some 10% of respondents cited brand impersonations as their top email threat, another marked increase from 4.8% in 2019, the report found.
The report recommended professionals adopt a layered approach to security by integrating an email security stack into a central intelligence engine.
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