AI · SEMICONDUCTOR · FACT CHECK
SKD WIREPartly True
A claim that 92 percent of office workers were deceived by phishing emails disguised as hygiene inspection notices is assessed as partly true, based on a review of available primary sources, with some comparison benchmarks left incomplete.
The claim centers on phishing campaigns that impersonate official hygiene inspection communications. According to the underlying research, an overwhelming majority of office workers — 92 percent — clicked on or engaged with such fraudulent emails, mistaking them for legitimate workplace notices.
Kaspersky materials referenced in the research include images illustrating the phishing scenario, in which attackers leverage the official-sounding nature of hygiene and sanitation inspections to prompt recipients to open attachments or follow links without suspicion.
The 92 percent figure originates from the primary sources reviewed for this assessment, which numbered eight in total. The figure reflects results from a phishing simulation or test scenario targeting working professionals, rather than a full-scale real-world attack audit.
However, the comparison benchmark portion of the research remained incomplete: the econ_search/DuckDuckGo search tool became unresponsive partway through the verification process, meaning that the full range of corroborating contrast searches could not be finished. As a result, while the core figure is supported by the available sources, its broader representativeness — how far the finding generalizes beyond the specific study population — could not be fully established.
The exact methodology behind the 92 percent figure, including sample size, region, and whether the test simulated Korean workplace conditions specifically, is not detailed in the materials available. Readers should treat the headline number as grounded in a specific study rather than a universal measure of employee vulnerability.
Given the confirmed core figure but the incomplete comparison benchmarks and unanswered questions about scope, the claim is best described as Partly True.
