Security News > 2021 > April > Report: Supplier Impersonation Attacks a Major Risk
Threat actors are leveraging the supply chain to deliver various types of threats to organizations, and few of them are spared from such attacks, according to a new report from enterprise security company Proofpoint.
During a seven-day window in February 2021, out of a total of 3,000 monitored organizations, Proofpoint reports that a whopping 98 percent were hit with a form of assault leveraging compromised supplier accounts and supplier impersonation.
Impostor threats, which include domain and display name spoofing, along with lookalike domains, account for only 3 percent of the total attacks delivered through supplier domains.
Large organizations, Proofpoint reveals, are targeted the most when it comes to threats served from supplier domains.
Compared to the average, F1000 companies receive emails from twice as many supplier domains, thus are more exposed to impersonated and compromised suppliers.
These organizations receive more than 4 times more threats served from supplier domains than the average.