Industry should 'pool resources' to address email phishing attacks, top DNI cyber official says

Private companies should “pool” their “training exercises” on email phishing to mitigate risks from cyber actors using machine learning to create mass phishing attacks, Jason Matheny, the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said at an event Friday.

“Seventy to 80 percent of the attacks, both for state actors and cyber criminals, are social engineering attacks, they are really attacks that are meant to manipulate the behavior of users,”...