Email impersonations becoming pervasive, preying on a distracted and dispersed workforce

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Impersonations have become pervasive, and are by far the most prevalent type of email-based attack ending up in business’s inboxes. This is according to a survey report by GreatHorn. Emphasizing the trend, 48.7% of respondents reported seeing impersonations of people such as colleagues, customers or vendors preying on the sense of urgency of an increasingly distracted and dispersed workforce. To develop the report, researchers collected data from over 640 security, IT and c-suite professionals to … More

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