Security News > 2020 > May > H2 2019: Duration of phishing attacks grows, use of banking trojans wanes

The lifespan of phishing attacks in H2 2019 has grown considerably and resulted in the tremendous increase in the number of phishing websites blockages, says Group-IB's Computer Emergency Response Team.

In H2 2019 CERT-GIB blocked a total of 8, 506 phishing web resources, while in H2 2018, the figure stood at 2,567.

"Several years ago, creators of phishing pages were likely to have some technical background, they created phishing pages, putting much effort into the launch of their campaigns, preventing them from being detected and relentlessly supporting their sustainability," CERT-GIB deputy head Yaroslav Kargalev told Help Net Security.

"This industry has changed its face - those pioneers no longer create phishing pages, they create tools for operators of web phishing campaigns who do not necessarily have any programming skills, and last year became the culmination of this trend. Since this new generation of phishers are not that experienced in maintaining the web resources viable, the phishing community's focus has shifted toward the number of scam resources."

In H2 2019, phishing attack perpetrators have revised their target pool: the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them.

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