The findings from the study show that participants, generally, found it difficult to detect modern phishing email attacks. The paper documents a study that presented test participants with five different categories of emails (including phishing and non phishing). In detail, we explore the current phishing attack characteristics especially the growing challenges that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we are interested in how the phishing email attack has evolved to this very threatening state. , 2020) highlights a sharp increase in the frequency of attempted phishing attacks.

The 2020 Phishing Attack Landscape Report (Greathorn: 2020 Phishing attack landscape. In particular, with the move to remote working, the number of phishing emails threatening employees has increased. The fact that our ways of living, studying and working have drastically changed as a result of the COVID pandemic (i.e., almost everything being done online) has created many new cyber security concerns.

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