Infosecurity Magazine: Financial services brace themselves for increase in email-borne cyberattacks

Financial services (FS) companies expect to see an influx of email-borne attacks during 2021 due to increased volumes in email (81%), according to research.

Accordion to a report from cybersecurity firm Mimecast, 62% of FS organizations believe that it’s likely, extremely likely or inevitable that their company will experience negative business impact from attacks originating from emails. The research also found that 60% of its respondents saw increases in phishing with malicious links or attachments over the past year.