{"id":583,"date":"2022-03-18T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/?p=583"},"modified":"2022-03-18T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:24:39","slug":"cloud-based-email-threats-surge-50-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/2022\/03\/18\/cloud-based-email-threats-surge-50-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cloud-Based Email Threats Surge 50% in 2021&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Trend Micro announced there was a decrease in ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) detections.\u00a0 It was reported that they blocked 9 million more threats last year than the previous year (2020 \u2013 25.7 million to 2021 \u2013 16.7 million). And even though phishing attempts nearly doubled, a good portion of ransomware and BEC threat exposures were declined, causing a decrease in detections from 2020.\u00a0 In total, 2021 had a 42% increase in blocked threats from the year before, which showed there is a trend of larger organizations being targeted for more of these attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cloudbased-email-threats-surge-2021\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/cloudbased-email-threats-surge-2021\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Christopher Clayton<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend Micro announced there was a decrease in ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) detections.\u00a0 It was reported that they blocked 9 million more threats last year than the previous year (2020 \u2013 25.7 million to 2021 \u2013 16.7 million). And even though phishing attempts nearly doubled, a good portion of ransomware and BEC threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-instructor","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}