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ONE IN EIGHT AMERICANS WOULD FALL VICTIM TO A PHISHING ATTACK
PHISHING REMAINS AN EFFECTIVE ATTACK MECHANISM, FINDS GLOBAL TEST
by: Danny Bradbury
7 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021
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A report from security company Terranova highlights while phishing is such a
common technique: it still fools a large percentage of targeted victims.
Almost one in eight North American employees would follow the instructions in a
phishing email to the point where they'd download a malicious document from a
spoofed website, according to the company's Security Phishing Benchmark Global
Report. That would render them vulnerable to infection by malware, including
ransomware.
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The report found that 19.2% of North American employees clicked on an initial
link in a phishing email. Over half of those that did went on to download a
document from the malicious site, which means that overall, 11.8% of Americans
would download a malicious document from a phishing site.
North Americans were more skeptical than most. In the Asia-Pacific region, 16%
of people got to the point where they downloaded a malicious document, followed
by Africa (15.3%), South America (15.1%), and Europe (14.9%).
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On average, one in five users around the world clicked the link in the initial
email, while 14.4% ended up downloading the document.
The worst offender by industry sector was education, where 21.9% of people
reached the stage where they downloaded a malicious document. The IT industry,
where you'd expect people to be tech-savvy, was the second worst performer.
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Healthcare and retail are the most diligent about phishing, with fewer than one
user in 20 taking the bait. This could be because healthcare is so heavily
regulated and retail has seen significant numbers of attacks.
The results came from the Global Phishing Tournament, an annual event that sent
almost a million simulated phishing emails to test employee readiness during two
weeks in October (Cyber Security Awareness Month).
The phishing emails, sent in 20 different languages, used templates from
Microsoft that sent victims to a fake SharePoint page. The message included
instructions on how to download the malicious file.
Phishing attackers continue to innovate so that their malicious emails bypass
technical protections to reach users. Last month, researchers found them
tampering with CSS to hide their phishing content from scanners.
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