Cyber Threats Unveiled: 2024 Email Security Trends You Need to Know

74% of the time, CEOs and executives were the roles that were compromised.

Regarding phishing links, URL redirection was the most employed tactic (51%), followed by compromised websites (19%) and newly created domains (7%).

The manufacturing sector (32%) was the most targeted industry sector for email-based attacks.

Over nine out of 10 emails were categorised as spam by VIPRE.

The use of QR codes for phishing peaked at 12% in Q4 of 2024.

VIPRE processed 7.2 billion emails globally, of which 858 million were spam.

Threat actors leveraged 'impersonation' as a tactic in an average of 88% of all BEC cases.

Phishing tactics with links were most popular (70%), followed by attachments (25%) and QR codes (5%).

Of the never-seen-before spam emails, 37% fell into the commercial, 32% into the scam, and 21% into the phishing categories of spam.