Collaborate Disseminate
There was some good news and some bad news for the Internet-using public in early 2019. The good news is that the total number of conventional, spam-based phishing campaigns declined as 2018 came to a close, while the bad news is that users of software… Continue reading Phishers shift efforts to attack SaaS and webmail services
$1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen and scammed in 2018 — a dramatic rise in criminal activity despite a slump in the market, according to CipherTrace. Criminals need to launder all these funds in order to cash out before a wave of regulations go… Continue reading $1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen and scammed in 2018
According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, after spiking in the spring, phishing has been taking place at a steady pace — but phishers are using new techniques to carry out their attacks – and obfuscate their origins – to make the mos… Continue reading Cybercrime gangs continue to innovate to hide their crimes
According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, phishing in the first part of 2018 surged 46 percent higher than late 2017. The total number of phish detected in the first quarter of 2018 was 263,538. That was up from the 180,577 observed … Continue reading Cybercrime gangs continue to go where the money is
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has been tracking notable increases in phishing campaigns that target SAAS/webmail providers, as well as increased attacks on financial / banking targets and cloud storage and file-sharing sites. But banks remain … Continue reading Phishers increasingly targeting cloud storage and SaaS
88.8 percent of the root domains operated by top colleges and universities in the United States are putting their students, staff and other recipients at risk for phishing attacks that spoof the institution’s domain, according to 250ok. Phishing and sp… Continue reading Most top US higher ed institutions fail to protect students from phishing
The Anti-Phishing Working Group’s latest report found upticks in phishing attacks against companies in the Logistics & Shipping as well Cloud Storage & File Hosting sectors, mounted by cyber gangs against the accounts of both individuals and enterprises. Once they steal usernames and passwords, the criminals can then steal not only funds, but also use services to spend spam mail, order goods for resale, and other nefarious ventures. While the report finds that phishing attacks … More → Continue reading Cybercriminals focus on the shipping and cloud storage sectors
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released the Phishing Activity Trends Report for the first half of 2017. APWG utilizes reported phishing attacks from multiple data sources to track, analyze, and report on fraud resulting from phishing, crimeware, and email spoofing. The report reveals frequent targeting in Payment, Financial, and Webmail sectors, as well as a rise in phishing attacks that utilize website builders and free hosting providers.
Crane Hassold, Manager of Threat Intelligence at PhishLabs, noted in the report that hosting providers that offer free hosting and free website-building tools provide criminals with opportunities. “These free hosts are not only easy and cheap to use, but they also allow threat actors to create subdomains spoofing a targeted brand, resulting in a more legitimate-looking phishing site. Free hosts also afford phishers additional anonymity, because these services do not make registrant information easily available.”
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Cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, by registering more and more domain names, rather using web servers and domains they have hacked into. These “malicious domain registrations” accounted for half of all the domain names used for phishing in 2016, according to APWG. A new global phishing survey from APWG documents that in 2016 there were at least 255,065 unique phishing attacks worldwide – an all-time high. Of the 195,475 domains used for phishing, … More → Continue reading Criminalization of DNS for phishing continues to advance
The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the year’s record wave of phishing subsided in the autumn. According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the total number of phishing websites detected in the third quarter of 2016 was 364,424, compared with 466,065 in the second quarter — a decline of 25 percent. The second quarter of the year had the all-time-high number of phishing attacks, and the decline represents a return to more historical … More → Continue reading Record wave of phishing comes to an ebb in autumn 2016