Kind old Google has published data on targeted email attacks and dispensed advice to help users separate friend from foe.
The pandemic has presented malware-laden email flingers with a world of opportunity and a whole new set of attack vectors. Google noted that it had seen 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 on top of the over 240 million COVID daily spam messages early in the pandemic.
Google and researchers at Stanford University studied five months' worth of phishing and malware campaigns and concluded the US and the UK were the most popular targets. The same English email template also tended to get used, although localisation was improving; 78 per cent of attacks in Japan were in ..
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