Scams and Phishing Attacks Witness Explosion

Talking about the attacks

• Usually, attackers send such emails to lure or scare the recipient by using their name, imploring them to click on the advert. This is tactic is known as dynamite phishing.
• Such emails do not always involve explicit material, however, their goal is to frighten the recipients or put them in an emotional state where they are unable to make any sensible decisions.
• The malicious URLs primarily do three things: download malware, send users to a fake dating site to steal payment data, or track users for a follow-up attack. 
• Moreover, scammers use a tactic called email pass-through to track their victims. In this technique, once a user clicks on a link inside an email, their email address is passed to the linked site automatically.

How effective is phishing?

• The firm found that a quarter of the account credentials were tested automatically as soon as they were posted. In addition, around three families of attacks were responsible for 85% of attacks.
• Nearly 92% of the compromised accounts were manually breached by an attacker. About 20% were accessed within the first hour and 91% were accessed within a week of compromise.

Conclusion