In the ME region the countries hosting phishing URLs are the UAE: 7 domains, KSA: 5 domains, Palestine: 3 domains, Syria and Lebanon: 2 domains each, Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait: 1 domain each. Meanwhile, the United States continues to host more phishing URLs than any other country. Results showed both mass campaign phishing and spear phishing are still rampant in the attack strategies used by cybercriminals around the world. Not only was there an increase in total volume, there was a significant rise in the sophistication of phishing attacks occurring in the wild. Since last quarter’s Threats Report, McAfee Labs has collected more than 250,000 new phishing URLs, leading to a total of nearly one million new sites in the past year. Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia were among the 48 countries participating in the McAfee Phishing Quiz in the EMEA region. EMEA proved to be the most skilled at an average of 67% correct. Furthermore, results showed that finance and HR departments, those holding some of the most sensitive corporate data, performed the worst at detecting scams, falling behind by a margin of 4% to 9%.Īround the world, the ability to detect phishing varied by region. ![]() Testing business users’ ability to detect online scams, the McAfee Phishing Quiz uncovered that 80% of its participants failed to detect at least one of seven phishing emails. McAfee Labs today released the McAfee Labs Threats Report: August 2014, revealing that phishing continues to be an effective tactic for infiltrating enterprise networks.
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