Security News > 2020 > March > Akamai's CDN Logs Uncover Emerging Phishing Attacks
Over four months, it found 1,221 active phishing domains that were not part of the Akamai ecosystem but which either consumed data from or redirected victims to Akamai customer sites.
"More importantly, we got a clear understanding on the number of victims, and such visibility is rarely published." Since he only used a sample dataset from the Akamai logs, he believes the true number of phishing sites using resources through Akamai is much higher.
Of course, the overall number of phishing sites discovered is tiny in comparison to the full number of those that don't get seen by Akamai.
An analysis of more than 1,200 phishing sites, and the victims of those phishing sites, is enough to provide some meaningful information.
While Akamai's research cannot give an overall picture of the phishing threat, it does highlight one very disturbing figure that is absolute: there were more than 2 million victims of just 1,200 phishing sites over a period of only four months.
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