Security News > 2016 > October > Vast phishing campaigns boost global criminal attack footprint (Help Net Security)
2016-10-06 13:00
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed a record number of phishing attacks in the second quarter of 2016. APWG observed 466,065 unique phishing websites in Q2. This represents a increase of 61 percent from the 289,371 phish found in the first quarter of 2016, which was itself the previous high. The Q2 total was almost three times the 158,574 phish found in the fourth quarter of 2015. Global data The country most infected with malware … More →
News URL
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/tpZ4IRvwPLY/
Related news
- CERT-UA Warns of Phishing Attacks Targeting Ukraine’s Defense and Security Force (source)
- T-Mobile US 'monitoring' China's 'industry-wide attack' amid fresh security breach fears (source)
- Microsoft Fixes AI, Cloud, and ERP Security Flaws; One Exploited in Active Attacks (source)
- Phishing-as-a-Service "Rockstar 2FA" Targets Microsoft 365 Users with AiTM Attacks (source)
- Novel phishing campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security (source)
- GenAI makes phishing attacks more believable and cost-effective (source)
- Update your OpenWrt router! Security issue made supply chain attack possible (source)
- Inside the incident: Uncovering an advanced phishing attack (source)
- Ongoing phishing attack abuses Google Calendar to bypass spam filters (source)
- Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them (source)