{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybersecurity Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"The Alarming Surge Of Lateral Phishing – Are We All Just Sitting Ducks?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":900,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-alarming-surge-of-lateral-phishing-are-we-all-just-sitting-ducks.\n Lateral Phishing involves hijacked or compromised accounts to send phishing emails to unsuspecting recipients, such as close contacts in external organizations \n Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity.\n You can also check exclusive content about #phishing-attacks, #lateral-phishing, #phishing-email, #barracuda, #cyber-threats, #phishing-attack-statistics, #multi-layered-security, #phishing-awareness, and more.\n \n \n This story was written by: @technologynews. Learn more about this writer by checking @technologynews's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\n \n \n \n A new report from Barracuda has just dropped, and it’s nothing short of a cyber-crime horror show. Nearly 42% of email attacks on companies with 2,000 employees or more are driven by the insidious menace of lateral phishing. Smaller businesses are getting hammered with external phishing attacks, which account for a staggering 71% of the threats over the past year.\n \n ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SySK4I0jwuU6AzeawZdYiDqTq8yzBjxJ5qfTpUuAxEo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMjY2LzE2ODM1/ODIzNTYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}