60 percent of enterprises have fallen victim to social engineering in 2016

A new study from cyber security company Agari reveals the scale of social engineering attacks on industrial organizations across the US. Of over 200 security leaders surveyed 60 percent say their organizations were, or may have been, victim of at least one targeted social engineering attack in the past year, and 65 percent of those who were attacked say that employees' credentials were compromised as a result. In addition, financial accounts were breached in 17 percent of attacks. Among other findings are that 89 percent of respondents have seen either a steady pace or an increase in spear phishing and… [Continue Reading]