Yahoo Mail Security Issues. The rising trend of ransomware attacks around the world has also been a victim at Capitol Hill, which has caused concern at the White House's IT office.
Gizmodo reports that the team supports issued a memo to all White House staff at the end of April, explaining that there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks through Web-based email services such as Yahoo Mail.
For this reason, the White House IT team blocked access to Yahoo service until further notice.
According to its latest threat report companySymantec Security (was posted last month), the frequency of e-mail phishing has been drastically reduced over the last three years.
However, incidents involving ransomware attacks (encrypting their victims' records and requiring ransom to unlock them) are on the rise, having increased by 35% from 2015.
Although the services email services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail try to filter out specific scams, often malicious software it reaches users' inboxes.
According to the White House IT team, the recent attacks that have been discovered seem to come from known senders and include zip files attached, making it difficult for the general public to spot them and avoid opening them.
It is clear that e-mail providers should step up their defenses against such attacks. For its part, Yahoo said in a statement that it "works closely with IT team personnel to find the right solutions that best protect their customer accounts."
