{"id":148591,"date":"2021-10-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2929780"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:00:00","slug":"human-hacking-rises-dramatically-in-2021-slashnext-releases-first-human-hacking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2021\/10\/12\/human-hacking-rises-dramatically-in-2021-slashnext-releases-first-human-hacking-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Hacking Rises Dramatically in 2021 SlashNext Releases First Human Hacking Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Of the more than 14M malicious URLs identified to date in 2021, 51% were credential stealing \u2013 the gateway to ransomware attack.<\/em><\/p>\n

PLEASANTON, Calif. \u2014 October 12, 2021<\/strong> \u2014 Human hacking \u2013 phishing attacks across all digital channels \u2013 has dramatically increased in 2021. SlashNext<\/a>, the leader in AI-based spear-phishing and human hacking defense across digital channels, released its first Human Hacking report showing a 51% increase in attacks compared to 2020, and increasingly these attacks are happening outside of email.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cybersecurity industry has done a good job of protecting machines, but those efforts leave the most porous and vulnerable parts of any network \u2013 the humans using it \u2013 unprotected,\u201d said Patrick Harr, SlashNext CEO. \u201cToday\u2019s hyper-targeted spear phishing attacks, coming at users from all digital channels, are simply not discernable to the human eye. Add to that the increasing number of attacks coming from legitimate infrastructure, and the reason phishing is the number one thing leading to disruptive ransomware attacks is obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key findings of the report include:<\/p>\n