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Phishing attacks increased in Microsoft 365, says FireEye
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IANS | 10 Oct, 2019
As cyber attackers are gaining
ground in Cloud, Microsoft continues to be the most popular brand used
in phishing scams, a FireEye report has said.
The US cybersecurity firm FireEye saw Microsoft Office 365-themed phishing attacks increase by 12 per cent over the quarter.
"Microsoft
continues to be the most popular brand utilised in phishing attacks,
with 68 per cent of all phishing detections," said Michael Hulton, Vice
President and GM of Email Security, FireEye.
A typical phishing
email impersonates a well-known contact or trusted company to induce the
recipient to click on an embedded link, with the ultimate goal of
credential or credit card harvesting.
Attackers are constantly adapting their tactics to get past email security defences.
"Bad
actors are following where the money goes, with an arsenal of tools at
their disposal. That's why as companies migrate to the cloud, we see
more attackers exploiting cloud services to perpetrate their attacks,"
the report added.
At the FireEye's "Cyber Defence Summita here,
the company on Wednesday released its latest email threat update after
analyzing more than two billion emails.
"Some of the most common
tactics include hosting Microsoft-themed phishing pages with Microsoft
Azure, nesting embedded phish URLs in documents hosted on popular file
sharing services, as well as establishing phishing URL redirects on
popular email delivery platforms," the report elaborated.
When it
comes to verticals which are facing cyberattacks, entertainment, media
and hospitality has taken the top position from financial services,
which dropped to number two.
Other highly-targeted verticals for
email-based attacks include manufacturing, service providers, telecom,
state and local governments, services, consulting and insurance.
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