Government employees bombarded with billions of malicious emails

20/04/2022 | Infosecurity Magazine

New research by Comparitech looking at Freedom of Information responses from 260 government organisations has revealed 764,331 government employees received almost 2.7 billion malicious emails in 2021, with as many as 57,736 suspect links being clicked.

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