Security News > 2021 > September > Phishing attempts: Employees can be the first line of defense

33% of emails employees report as phishing attempts are either malicious or highly suspect, according to new research.

The finding comes from an analysis of emails reported by employees from organizations across the globe during the first half of 2021, and highlights the efficacy of employee-led efforts in preventing cyberattacks.

Approximately one third of people working for organizations using F-Secure's email reporting plugin for Microsoft Office 365 submitted over 200 000 emails for analysis during the first half of the year.

Security professionals manually investigated the remaining 1% of reported emails and determined 63% of those were phishing attempts.

Email accounted for over half of infection attempts in 2020.

Email is the most common method cybercriminals use to spread malware, and accounted for over half of infection attempts in 2020.

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