Hackers overwhelmingly sought to socially engineer and exploit computer users last year rather than create automated exploits for use in email-based attacks, according to Proofpoint.
The cybersecurity company claimed in its new The Human Factor 2016 report that 99.7% of documents used in attachment-based campaigns relied on social engineering and macros.
What’s more, 98% of URLs in malicious messages link to executables, or executables inside an archive – which have to be opened by the user.
Similarly, phishing became 10-times more common on social media than malware, with 40% of Facebook accounts and 20% of Twitter accounts claiming to represent a Fortune 100 brand actually being unauthorized.
To mitigate this human-centric shift in attack tactics, organizations need to blend technical and non-technical elements, according to Kevin Epstein, VP of threat operations at Proofpoint. For the full article click here
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