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The risk of being targeted with email-based phishing and malware attacks is not evenly spread across geographic and demographic boundaries, Google and Stanford University researchers have discovered.
Australian users are, for example, at a higher risk of being targeted that U.S.-based users, and older people are more likely to be targeted than youngsters.
Findings tied to geography and demographics
The researchers have analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users and have singled out some interesting findings.