Security News > 2021 > July > Financial services accounting for nearly 40% of all phishing URLs

Vade released its Phishers' Favorites report for H1 2021, which revealed that there has been a major jump in phishing attacks since the start of the year with a 281 percent spike in May and another 284 percent increase in June, for a total of 4.2 billion phishing emails detected by Vade for June alone.

In Q2 2021, Crédit Agricole phishing URLs increased 296 percent, while La Banque Postale URLs increased 831 percent, pushing them up 18 spots to #5 on the list.

Although unique Microsoft phishing URLs have declined, the sophistication of Microsoft phishing has actually increased.

With a simple API call, cybercriminals determined whether a phishing victim was the intended target and then displayed their employer's corporate branding on a Microsoft phishing page.

Despite a 13 percent decline in Facebook phishing URLs in Q2, Facebook still saw more than twice the number of phishing URLs than the second highest ranked social media brand, WhatsApp, which had 8,727 URLs for the time period.

36.4% of all unique phishing URLs impersonated financial services brands.

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