{"id":5784,"date":"2018-10-24T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2018-10-24T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:53:27","slug":"the-latest-in-phishing-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/10\/24\/the-latest-in-phishing-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest in Phishing: October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of fake support accounts targeting Proofpoint\u2019s global customer base rose 37% from Q1 to Q2 2018.<\/li>\n<li>More than 65% of the companies that were targeted by email fraud in Q1 had the identities of more than five employees spoofed.<\/li>\n<li>The number of email fraud attacks per targeted company was 25% higher in Q2 than in Q1, with the government and retail sectors experiencing the largest increase in email fraud attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Malicious phishing message volume increased 36% between Q1 and Q2 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Ransomware was back on the scene in Q2 but is still lagging from a volume perspective, accounting for just a little more than 11% of total malicious messages during the measurement period.<\/li>\n<li>Proofpoint researchers also detected a 30% increase in phishing links on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wombatsecurity.com\/blog\/the-latest-in-phishing-october-2018\">https:\/\/www.wombatsecurity.com\/blog\/the-latest-in-phishing-october-2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The number of fake support accounts targeting Proofpoint\u2019s global customer base rose 37% from Q1 to Q2 2018. More than 65% of the companies that were targeted by email fraud in Q1 had the identities of more than five employees spoofed. The number of email fraud attacks per targeted company was 25% higher in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[722304],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-it-services-quality","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}