A Breakdown of Today’s Phishing Epidemic

Written by brianwallace | Published 2019/11/22
Tech Story Tags: cybersecurity | phishing-email | phishing-attacks | phishing | infographic | history-of-phishing | phishing-epidemic | what-is-phishing

TLDR In 2018, the FBI received nearly 50,000 reports of phishing and compromised email - costing a total of $1.8 billion. Nearly 4.7 billion phishing emails are sent on a daily basis. Malicious phishing attacks are on the rise by 250%. The key to protecting your information from phishing is understanding it. Understanding it as described in the infographic below can save you from becoming a victim. The most common way to spam is digitally, digitally, since doing so in-person wouldn’t be so anonymous.via the TL;DR App

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Written by brianwallace | Founder @ NowSourcing | Contributor at Hackernoon | Advisor: Google Small Biz, SXSW | Founder of The Innovate Summit
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/11/22