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Study reports a 70% increase in phishing from May 2020 through April 2021

published on 2021-10-04 13:54:51 UTC by The Security Skeptic
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My Interisle colleagues, together with Greg Aaron of Illumintel, have published a study of the scope and distribution of phishing. From 1 May 2020 through 30 April 2021, we collected nearly 1.5 million phishing reports. Our analyses found ~700,000 phishing attacks among the reports collected. Highlights from the study: Phishing increased by nearly 70% over the yearly period. Most phishing is concentrated at small numbers of domain registrars, domain registries, and hosting providers. The top 10 brands targeted accounted for 46% of the phishing attacks associated with specific brands. Phishing attacks are disproportionately concentrated in new Top-level Domains (TLD). We...
Article: Study reports a 70% increase in phishing from May 2020 through April 2021 - published about 3 years ago.

https://www.securityskeptic.com/2021/10/study-reports-a-70-increase-in-phishing-from-may-2020-through-april-2021-.html   
Published: 2021 10 04 13:54:51
Received: 2021 10 04 14:04:24
Feed: The Security Skeptic
Source: The Security Skeptic
Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security
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