Security News > 2021 > January > Inbox Attacks: The Miserable Year (2020) That Was
Next, up the popularity of collaborative business tools, such as Zoom, Skype and Trello, spurred on by the work-from-home trend, triggered a flood of inbox attacks.
Beyond inbox impersonation fraud, business email compromise and email phishing attacks, criminals leveraged clever technical traps to ensnare victims.
Malicious attachments, once again, were dominant inbox attack vectors.
The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that malicious email attachments were the leading cause of data breaches and ransomware attacks.
As threat groups hone their attacks - researching and testing out new tactics, techniques and procedures - the tools to protect our inboxes have seen near-Manhattan Project levels of investment over the years.
In the past five years BEC attacks have cost business $26 billion, according to the FBI. That's driven the popularity of solutions such as Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance - an authentication protocol sometimes called a zero-trust email model.