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It Takes Less Than 2 Mins For a Spam Email to Infect a Company's Network

  • Wired, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:13 PM
It takes an average of one minute and 20 seconds from when an employee opens a phishing email for the malware to infect a company's network, according to the new Verizon Breach Investigations Report. The research found that 23 percent of recipients open phishing messages. However, opening a spam email doesn't lead to an attack. It is the 11 percent of recipients that click on malicious attachments that cause cyber attacks.

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