Cyber security companies miss million of email attacks

New research by Barracuda has found that cybersecurity protection organisations have missed millions of email attacks. The research discovered 2,029,413 unique attacks in 2,600,531 unique mailboxes. The cybersecurity firm said that an average of 512 attacks were found per organisation out of the 4550 organisations that took part in the research. They also said that 14 per cent of organisations had at least one attack currently in their company mailbox, even though the messages were being scanned by an email gateway solution.

The research found that there were four types of attacks used in the emails: scamming, phishing, business email compromise and extortion. Phishing was the attack method that was missed by most organisations, with 59 per cent of phishing emails being missed, while scamming was the second most common method.