Security News > 2021 > March > Cybercriminals increasingly impersonate business-related apps

Cybercriminals have wasted little time in capitalizing on the vulnerabilities that come with remote work, and their attacks have been highly targeted, with a focus on business-related apps, according to GreatHorn.

These attacks are increasingly difficult to detect as cybercriminals become more sophisticated and targeted in their attacks - advancing beyond the 'batch and blast' methodology to social engineering phishing campaigns.

As a result of increasing attacks, email security has risen to one of the top 3 IT security projects for 2021 among the organizations surveyed.

While the need to remediate phishing attacks daily has decreased from 34% to 18% YoY, occurrences have increased weekly from 28% to 41% on average and monthly from 11% to 16%. "In today's email security environment, it is impossible to catch every phishing attack. The results of this benchmark report indicate that cybercriminals are relentless and continue to advance their techniques to exploit systems and people." said Kevin O'Brien, CEO of GreatHorn.

Additional key stats Email security, securing telework and cloud security posture management are the top 3 security projects for 2021.

Missing phishing attacks remains the top issue in current email security solutions with 39% of respondents noting this as a top concern in both 2020 and 2021.

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