Security News > 2022 > September > Phishing attacks skyrocketing, over 1 million observed

The APWG's Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the second quarter of 2022, the APWG observed 1,097,811 total phishing attacks - the worst quarter for phishing that APWG has ever observed.

The number of phishing attacks reported has quadrupled since early 2020 - when APWG was observing between 68,000 and 94,000 attacks per month.

In the first quarter of 2022, OpSec Security found that phishing attacks against the financial sector, which includes banks, remained the largest set of attacks, accounting for 27.6 percent of all phishing.

Attacks against webmail and software-as-a-service providers remained prevalent as well, while attacks against retail/ecommerce sites fell from 17.3 percent to 14.6 percent after the holiday shopping season.

Phishing against social media websites rose, to 15.3 percent of all attacks.

Phishing against cryptocurrency targets - such as cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers - was 6.5 percent of the total, which made them more prevalent than attacks against online games, government sites, and telecom services combined.

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