Phishing Facts
What you need to know.
Information security is paramount for all businesses, and phishing poses a serious threat. Below are some interesting facts to support the need to address the phishing threat vector. To make it easier to spread the word, we added a Tweet button for each fact. Please share with others.
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| 89% of all attacks involve financial or espionage motivations. | Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report | |
| 30% of phishing messages were opened in 2016 – up from 23% in the 2015 report. | Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report | |
| e-Mail phishing rate is 1 in 1,846. | Symantec Internet Security Threat Report | |
| 34.9% of all spear-phishing e-mail was directed at an organization in the financial industry. | Symantec Internet Security Threat Report | |
| The number of spear-phishing campaigns targeting employees increased by 55%. | Symantec Internet Security Threat Report | |
| The APWG announced that the number of observed phishing attacks in Q1 2016 was higher than any total since 2004. | Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) |