Threat Reports

Abnormal’s latest report on business email compromise trends and statistics finds that employees open 28% of attacks and reply to 15% of them.

From January-June 2022, Abnormal found a 48% increase in email attacks, and 68.5% of the attacks included a credential phishing link.

For years, executives were the go-to impersonated party in business email compromise attacks. Now, threat actors are opting to impersonate vendors and suppliers instead.

From June-December 2021, Abnormal Security discovered that nearly all types of advanced email attacks grew in frequency, with a new trend of phone fraud using email as the first contact.

Our threat report on ransomware shares insight on attack methods, locations, payouts, and more across 4,200 victims.

Read the Q1 2021 threat report to learn the latest on vendor email compromise, including which scams are most successful and why the volume of attacks has grown so significantly.

Attackers are leveraging social engineering to drive significantly higher engagement and account takeover. In the Q2 2021 threat report, Abnormal found that attacks are growing at significant rates, as threat actors leverage social engineering strategies to bypass SEGs and drive engagement.