Collaborate Disseminate
An APWG’s report reveals that it saw 260,642 phishing attacks in July 2021 – the highest monthly total observed since APWG began its reporting program in 2004. Overall, the number of phishing attacks has doubled from early 2020. APWG Senior… Continue reading Phishing attacks top 260,000 in Q3 2021
The number of phishing attacks grew through 2020, fully doubling over the course of the year. Attacks peaked in October 2020, with a high of 225,304 new phishing sites appearing in that month alone, breaking all previous monthly records, according to A… Continue reading Successful BEC attacks become 56% more costly
The total number of phishing sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) worldwide in October through December 2019 was 162,155, following the all-time-high of 266,387 attacks recorded in July through September 2019. Most menacing, however… Continue reading Almost three-quarters of all phishing sites now use SSL protection
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