Worldwide Phishing Attacks Ramped Up at the Peak of Working From Home
Summary: Unit 42 analyzed URL Filtering traffic and phishing page detections from September 2019 to April 2021 and found that on-prem firewall traffic fell about 45% from March to April 2020 while Prisma Access traffic rose more than 200%, just as new phishing pages per week peaked around June 2020. The share of traffic coming from phishing pages was more than 2.4 times greater in Prisma Access traffic than in on-prem firewall traffic, and business-related and consumer-related phishing both rose roughly 100% from February to June 2020.
What you should know: The phishing spike landed exactly when the smallest share of end-user traffic was passing through corporate firewalls, and remote traffic carried more than 2.4 times the phishing exposure of on-prem traffic - a gap that persists as long as hybrid work does.
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