Abnormal Security has released its H1 2023 Email Threat Report examining recent developments in the email threat environment and analyzing the growing risk employees pose to an organization’s cybersecurity.
Abnormal found that between July through December 2022, the median open rate for text-based business email compromise (BEC) attacks was nearly 28%. Employees are replying to the threat actors an average of 15% of the time; while less than 1% of recipients engaged with more than one attack, 36% of replies were initiated by employees who previously engaged with an earlier attack.
Abnormal also explored the steady rise of BEC and the continued popularity of supply chain compromise as an attack strategy. Key findings include:
- Employees report only 2.1% of known attacks to the security team.
- Entry-level sales associates read and reply to text-based BEC attacks 78% of the time.
- 147% increase in BEC attacks targeting SMB organizations between 1H and 2H of 2022.
You can read the full report here.
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New Security Research: 175% BEC Attack Increase; Employees Fail to Report 98% of All Email Attacks
Abnormal Security has released its H1 2023 Email Threat Report examining recent developments in the email threat environment and analyzing the growing risk employees pose to an organization’s cybersecurity.
Abnormal found that between July through December 2022, the median open rate for text-based business email compromise (BEC) attacks was nearly 28%. Employees are replying to the threat actors an average of 15% of the time; while less than 1% of recipients engaged with more than one attack, 36% of replies were initiated by employees who previously engaged with an earlier attack.
Abnormal also explored the steady rise of BEC and the continued popularity of supply chain compromise as an attack strategy. Key findings include:
You can read the full report here.
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