Security News > 2020 > October > Microsoft now the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks
A Monday blog post from cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research found that Microsoft was the top impersonated brand in phishing attempts during the third quarter.
For the quarter, email phishing was the most prevalent type of brand phishing, accounting for 44% of all attacks.
Among email phishing attempts, Microsoft was the most impersonated brand.
Behind Microsoft, DHL was the second most impersonated brand last quarter, appearing in 9% of the phishing attacks seen by Check Point.
"In this past quarter, we saw the highest increase in email phishing attacks of all platforms compared to Q2, with Microsoft being the most impersonated brand," Maya Horowitz, Check Point's director of threat intelligence & research for products, said in the blog post.
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