From securityaffairs.co
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A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack.
Experts discovered that malicious campaigns are typically short-lived and indiscriminately target users worldwide.