Security News > 2023 > August > 30% of phishing threats involve newly registered domains

Phishing remains the most dominant and fastest growing internet crime, largely due to the ubiquity of email and the ceaseless issue of human error that is preyed upon by today's threat actors, according to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare observed more email threats targeting political organizations.

In the three months leading up to the 2022 US midterm elections, Cloudflare's email security service prevented around 150,000 phishing emails from making their way to campaign officials.

Phishing attack trends Malicious links were the #1 threat category, comprising 35.6% of detected threats.

30% of detected threats featured newly registered domains - the #2 threat category.

Make it harder for humans to make mistakes - email link isolation, which integrates email security with remote browser isolation technology, can automatically block and isolate domains that host phishing links, instead of relying on users to stop themselves from clicking.

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