Businesses are facing a sharp increase in email attacks, while hackers are looking for a more direct way to reap big rewards.
A new Mimecast study found that millions of cyberattacks used humble email as their weapon of choice.
The company has notably detected a significant increase in the number of corporate email fraud (BEC) attacks, in which hackers fraudulently steal other personalities within the company. A company to encourage victims to submit personal data or resources.
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Mimecast's latest quarterly report revealed a 269 percent increase in BEC attacks from the last three months, showing the large increase in these attacks.
However, BEC attacks are not the only method that cybercriminals have used successfully to attack organizations. Mimecast's findings included 28,783,892 spam, 28,808 malware attachments, and 28,726 malicious file types during the quarter, all of which were forgotten by current security protection tools and delivered in boxes. user reception.
This equates to an overall false negative rate of 11% of inspected emails, highlighting the urgent need for companies to immediately improve the security of their emails.
"The real problem is that there are tens of thousands of email threats that can bypass organizations' messaging security systems, make them vulnerable, and put a lot of pressure on their employees to detect malicious messages," said Joshua Douglas, vice president of Threat intelligence on Mimecast.
"Cybercriminals will always look for new ways to circumvent traditional defenses and mislead users. This means that the industry must focus on investments in research and development, unified integrations and simplifying the integration of users in security defenses, strengthening thus resistance to evolving attacks. "