5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks - Enterprise Irregulars

Mobile devices are popular with hackers because they're designed for quick responses based on minimal contextual information. Verizon's 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that hackers are succeeding with integrated email, SMS and link-based attacks across social media aimed at stealing passwords and privileged access credentials. And with a growing number of breaches originating on mobile devices according to Verizon's Mobile Security Index 2020, combined with 83% of all social media visits in the United States are on mobile devices according to Merkle's Digital Marketing Report Q4 2019, applying machine learning to harden mobile threat defense deserves to be on any CISOs' priority list today. Google's use of machine learning to thwart the skyrocketing number of phishing attacks occurring during the Covid-19 pandemic provides insights into the scale of these threats. During a typical week in April of this year, Google's G-Mail Security team saw 18M daily malware and phishing emails related to Covid-19.