Vast Majority of Phishing and Malware Campaigns Are Small-Scale and Short-Lived
By Ionut Arghire on February 13, 2021 Researchers from Google and Stanford University have analyzed the patterns of more than 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks targeting Gmail users, and found that most attack campaigns are short-lived and sent to fewer than 1,000 targets. Users in North America are targeted the most, they found, with 42% of the observed attacks targeted users in the United States, 10% hitting people in the United Kingdom, and 5% aimed at users in Japan. Most of the analyzed 406,002 phishing campaigns and 1,724,160 malware campaigns, the researchers say, w...
Source: securityweek.com