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Over the course of September 2019 to April 2021, Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 monitored firewall traffic and phishing sites detected by URL filters. The number of new phishing pages per week increased significantly when individuals began working from home.
Threat actors improved and intensified their phishing attacks by exploiting remote work environments where employees were not protected by corporate firewalls. Cybersecurity experts noticed a sudden and significant drop in traffic between March and April 2020, when COVID began spreading across the United States, forcing companies to switch to remote work.
Education and high-tech industries saw significant declines in traffic during this period, with the latter having the steepest drop: education (a 46% drop), most likely due to school closures, and high-tech (a 35% drop), probably because more employees starting working from home…
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