Businesses, get ready: The phishers are paying more attention to you.
No company has ever been completely safe from criminals, whether the types that steal in person or the hackers who do it digitally. But there is mounting evidence that phishers are turning more attention to enterprise and away from individuals — and at a time when pretty much every industry is moving away from a reliance on analog processes and toward more digitalization.
“Threat actors are targeting enterprises by impersonating the services that enterprises rely on every day, such as email service providers and software as a service (SaaS) platforms,” said PhishLabs in a recent summary of the changing nature of phishing attacks.
In fact, email and online services accounted for 26 percent of phishing attacks last year, overtaking financial institutions, at 21 percent, as the top phishing target, the company said. Attacks involving SaaS increased 237 percent year...(continued)
