IT staff receive upto 40 targeted phishing attacks a year: Report

IT staffers receive on an average up to 40 targeted phishing attacks a year, revealed a report by Barracuda, a cloud-enabled security solutions provider.

The report, titled Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends Volume 6 — Insights into attackers’ evolving tactics and who they’re targeting, suggests that all employees, not just top executives, must be prepared for spear-phishing attacks.

Between May 2020 and June 2021, Barracuda researchers analysed more than 12 million spear phishing and social engineering attacks impacting more than 3 million mailboxes at over 17,000 organizations.