Verizon’s “2019 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) includes data from 73 contributors the most since its inception. Financial gain remained the primary goal, with financially motivated social-engineering attacks making up 12% of all breaches analyzed. People were more susceptible to email-based spear-phishing, spoofing attacks mimicking legitimate Web pages, and social media scams when they’re on their phones, report says. Cloud-based email accounts are also top-of-mind, as analysts notice a “substantial shift” in cybercriminals stealing credentials and using them to log into cloud accounts.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/social-engineering-slams-the-c-suite-verizon-dbir