Security News > 2020 > February > Almost three-quarters of all phishing sites now use SSL protection

The total number of phishing sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group worldwide in October through December 2019 was 162,155, following the all-time-high of 266,387 attacks recorded in July through September 2019.

APWG contributor OpSec Security saw attacks against more than 325 different brands per month in Q4. Stefanie Wood Ellis, Anti-Fraud Product & Marketing Manager at OpSec Security, noted that the most frequent targets of phishing attacks continued to be Webmail, payment, and bank sites, but that "Phishing against Social Media targets grew every quarter of the year, doubling over the course of 2019.".

The researchers at APWG member PhishLabs documented the rising use of SSL certificates on phishing websites.

Almost three-quarters of all phishing sites now use SSL protection.

APWG member RiskIQ analyzed 2,149 confirmed phishing URLs reported to APWG in Q4 2019, and found that the most popular top-level domains used by the phishers are the generic.com,.org,.net and.

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