Security News > 2020 > August > 6,600 organizations bombarded with 100,000+ BEC attacks

In their most recent threat spotlight report, Barracuda researchers observed that 6,170 malicious accounts that have used Gmail, AOL and other email services, have been responsible for over 100,000 BEC attacks which have impacted nearly 6,600 organizations.

What's more, since April 1, these 'malicious accounts' have been behind 45% of all BEC attacks detected.

Having analyzed attacks on 6,600 organizations, Barracuda researchers found that in many cases, cybercriminals used the same email addresses to attack different organizations.

The number of organizations attacked by each malicious account ranged from one, to a single mass scale attack that impacted 256 organizations - 4% of all the organizations included in the research.

The number of email attacks sent by a malicious account ranged from one to over 600 emails, with the average being only 19.

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