Fortra has published the results of its 2025 Email Threat Landscape report which describes how the email threat landscape evolved in 2024 and forecasts what defenders should expect in 2025. Fortra analyzed more than 1 million email threats, many of which bypassed traditional email security measures.
Some of the main findings include:
- 99% of email threats reaching corporate user inboxes in 2024 were response-based social engineering attacks or contained phishing links, without delivering malware.
- Scammers are exploiting leaked personal data, such as home addresses, to craft highly personalized attacks and extortion schemes.
- Legitimate services are being heavily abused to get malicious emails into user inboxes. Misuse of developer tools grew sharply, increasing more than 200% in 2024.
- Multichannel attacks are luring victims out of secure email environments. Methods include malicious QR codes and hybrid vishing, which surged in Q4 2024 to account for 40% of response-based email threats.
You can read the report here.
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Fortra’s 2025 Email Security Report Is Out
Fortra has published the results of its 2025 Email Threat Landscape report which describes how the email threat landscape evolved in 2024 and forecasts what defenders should expect in 2025. Fortra analyzed more than 1 million email threats, many of which bypassed traditional email security measures.
Some of the main findings include:
You can read the report here.
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