Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted, with a number of new tricks ranging from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2 023 501 phishing attacks in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda and Ethiopia. These and other findings are documented in […]
It’s estimated that phishing is the starting point of over 90% of all attempted cyber-attacks, and Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report reflects that nearly one-third (32%) of actual data breaches involved phishing activity. What’s more shocking is that phishing was present in 78% of cyber-espionage incidents and the installation and use of backdoors to networks. […]