Statistics
Growth
With each year there are more and more people getting hit by Malware infection. A vast number of these are from phishing attacks.
Many ways
Understanding that Phishing takes many different shapes and sizes is also very important.
Random statistics
One in 25 branded emails is a phishing email
Avanan, a cyber security platform, reports the two most popular brands phishers pose as are Microsoft (42%) and Amazon (38%).
URL phishing detections increased 269% in 2018
Trend Micro reports that “attacks that capitalize on the human desire to respond to urgent requests from authority are on the rise,” such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and phishing, with phishing URL detections increasing 269 percent over 2017.
30% of phishing emails bypass default security measures
Avanan research indicates that 4% of all emails are phishing emails. Furthermore, their research also shows that nearly one-third of phishing messages get past companies’ default security methods.