The most successful phishing attacks manage to dupe their victims a full 45 percent of the time, according to a study released last week by Google. On average, phishing’s success rate is about 14 percent, but even the most obvious scams still manage to lure 3 percent of the people targeted to a fake website and convince them to turn over personal information, the report found. “Considering that an attacker can send out millions of messages, these success rates are nothing to sneeze at,” said Elie Bursztein, Google’s antiabuse research lead.
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Phishers' Attacks Pay Off Nicely: Report
Posted by: Katherine Noyes November 10, 2014 07:14 AMThe most successful phishing attacks manage to dupe their victims a full 45 percent of the time, according to a study released last week by Google. On average, phishing’s success rate is about 14 percent, but even the most obvious scams still manage to lure 3 percent of the people targeted to a fake website and convince them to turn over personal information, the report found. “Considering that an attacker can send out millions of messages, these success rates are nothing to sneeze at,” said Elie Bursztein, Google’s antiabuse research lead.