RSA finds two-thirds of phishing attacks directed at Canada
A new RSA Security report on cyberfraud has troubling news for users north of the border.
The "RSA Quarterly Fraud Report: Q1 2020," released Thursday, examined a total of 50,119 incidents of fraud across the globe, with 54% attributed to phishing attacks. Daniel Cohen, RSA's head of anti-fraud products, said phishing is still the "go-to tool" for cybercriminals targeting end users at large.
According to the report, 66% of those phishing attacks were directed at users in a single country: Canada. RSA said Canada continued to dominate the list of top targeted countries for the fifth quarter in a row. "The country was the target of 7 out of 10 phishing attacks for the second year in a row, making it the top targeted country for every quarter of the last four. The United States was again second on the list [with just 7% of attacks]," RSA wrote in the report.
