Millions of email attacks missed by organisationsâ cyber security protection 15 Feb 2021
Millions of email attacks are being missed by organisations cyber security protection, according to new research from Barracuda.
In 2020, 4550 organisations used Barracuda Email Threat Scanner to scan 2,600,531 unique mailboxes and found 2,029,413 unique attacks. On average, 512 attacks were found per organisation, and one out of seven mailboxes (14%) had at least one attack currently sitting inside, even if messages were scanned by an email gateway solution, the cyber security firm says.
The attacks detected fall into four email threat types: phishing, scamming, extortion, and business email compromise (BEC). Of the 2,029,413 unique attacks detected, phishing was the number one threat missed by the organisations email security solutions (59%). Scamming was the second most common (39%).