Security News > 2020 > April > Phishing kits: The new bestsellers on the underground market

Phishing kits are the new bestsellers of the underground market, with the number of phishing kit ads on underground forums and their sellers having doubled in 2019 compared to the previous year, Group-IB reveals.

Phishing kits represent archive files with a set of scripts that ensure the work of a phishing website.

In 2019, the average price of a phishing kit more than doubled compared to the year before and totaled $304, with the prices generally ranging between $20 and $880. In comparison, in 2018, the prices for a phishing kit varied between $10 and $824, while the average price stood at $122. The price for phishing kits depends on their complexity - the quality and the number of phishing pages, as well as the existence of side services like "Technical support" on behalf of their creator.

The process of phishing kit detection is becoming more and more challenging, with the statistics for the previous year showing a frustrating trend: hackers grow more cautious in their malicious activities since only 113,460 out of 2.7 million phishing pages detected contained a phishing kit.

One more trend saying in favor of phishing kits' expanding place on the underground market is the number of unique email addresses detected in them - the figure saw an 8% growth last year.

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