The top five most-phished industries

New research reveals the top five industries most frequently targeted by specifically tailored phishing attacks using either the recipient's name, email address, phone number, or company name. The study from Cofense using data drawn from the Cofense Intelligence product between Q3 2023 to Q3 2024 shows, unsurprisingly, that finance tops the list, accounting for 15.5 percent of all credential phishing emails where the product redacted information from the subject in order to safeguard the recipient. Manufacturing comes next on 11.3 percent, again not too surprising as this is a sector where email communications related to orders, contracts, and agreements are… [Continue Reading]