It säkerhetsbolaget Mimecast analyzed 160 billion e-mails between april and June of this year, and was found to be 67 billion, out of these, some sort of attack on the recipient.
It was all from the spammejl, in which the letter holds the malicious code to the sender, who is pretending to be someone else, or targeted attacks are designed to bypass anti-virus software.
the Education sector was in the top of the sectors in which it is subjected to an attack.
Both the sophistication of the attacks, and the simpler forms of fraud, according to Mimecast is on the rise.
For example, the perpetrators are able to try to by e-mail and then follow-up via text message, according to the company, ”the less " structured” form of communication, which may be easier for you to utilize.
then again, He's pulling in millions from the hack techjättarna.