The most popular way to lure employees into the trap is by email,” added Markuson. “When internal corporate systems get breached, 99% of cases are caused by employees. “The malware targeting a decade-old MS Office vulnerability must have been under the radar, as it has been spreading through emails for three years now,” explained Daniel Markuson, Digital Privacy Expert at NordVPN.Īccording to the firm, businesses are at heightened risk of this form of attack, as a result of the value of data held in corporate networks and also because of the fallibility of employees. The most common and effective means of distributing these infected files is via email phishing campaigns, many of which are highly convincing and manipulative.įor example, the US Secret Service (USSS) warned citizens of an email scam in April, at the height of the pandemic, that attempted to lure victims into opening an attachment that claimed to contain important coronavirus information.īy preying on human insecurities and attaching scams to macro world events, hackers are able to infect a large pool of victims with relative ease.
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