Spear phishing attacks accounted for approximately 17% of incident response activities supported in 2015.
Tara Seals
On average, only 23% of organizations are capable of responding effectively to a cyber-incident. This is especially bad for companies in the retail and hospitality sectors, which were the top-attacked verticals in 2015.
Thats the word from NTT Groups annual Global Threat Intelligence Report, which found that not only do 77% have no capability to respond to critical incidents, but that the addressable fixable issues of social engineering and exploits of old vulnerabilities continue to be popular attack vectors.
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Source: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com