New Research: Smaller Companies Receiving Higher Rates Of Phishing Emails

Barracuda research highlights that smaller organizations face broadly distributed phishing across staff due to flatter structures and wider privileged access, while larger enterprises are more affected by lateral phishing using compromised internal accounts—42% of targeted email attacks in the largest companies vs. 2% in the smallest. The report underscores phishing as a persistent threat and suggests security awareness training to reduce human risk.