No Surprise That Phishing & Spearphishing (BEC) Attacks Are Increasing!

Darkreading.com reported that a “new study shows that in 2021 more organizations experienced at least one successful email-based phishing attack than the year before. There were also more opportunistic and targeted phishing attacks last year compared with 2020, as well as phishing attacks involving ransomware and business email compromise (BEC).”  The February 22, 2022 report entitled “More Orgs Suffered Successful Phishing Attacks in 2021 Than in 2020” included these comments about a recent Proofpoint study in which “Proofpoint recently analyzed data from a survey of 600 IT and security professionals an another survey of 3,500 employees from seven countries, including the US, UK, France, Germany, and Australia';