Security News > 2021 > June > Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021

The APWG's new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021, after landmark increases of 2020 in which reported phishing websites doubled.

The number of reported phishing websites peaked in January 2021 with an all-time high of 245,771 before declining later in the quarter.

"The APWG's members are reporting more confirmed phishing attacks," said Greg Aaron, Senior Research Fellow at the APWG, and the editor of the new report.

OpSec Security found that phishing that targeted financial institutions was the largest category of phishing in the first quarter, representing 24.9 percent of all attacks.

APWG contributor PhishLabs found that, in the first quarter of 2021, 83 percent of phishing sites had SSL encryption enabled.

RiskIQ analyzed the use of domain names for phishing and analyzed several specific phishing campaigns.

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