Phishing trends: Who is targeted and why - Help Net Security
How many phishing attacks have happened in 2016? Cybercriminals have kept busy this year as well. In fact, many experts believe this will be another one for the record books. The British have reported that they are already up to 8,000 phishing attacks occurring a month. May 03, 2017 · We are investigating a phishing email that appears as Google Docs. We encourage you to not click through, & report as phishing within Gmail. — Gmail (@gmail) May 3, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 · Phishing Activity Trends Report 1st Half 2017 www.apwg.org • info@apwg.org 4 Phishing Activity Trends Report, 1st Half 2017 The number of unique phishing email reports (campaigns) was largely consistent from month to month, except for a Jan 12, 2017 · For this reason it's only really useful for large data breaches against organisations, not phishing attacks on users (where attackers will generally keep compromised details to themselves). RODNEY WILTROUT January 12, 2017 at 2:38 pm
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Jan 17, 2018 · The war against phishing is still on, with 76% of organizations experiencing phishing attacks in 2017. Further, nearly half of information security professionals surveyed said that the rate of attacks increased from 2016. Jan 16, 2017 · Gmail phishing attempts haven’t been observed. However, phishing attacks on other services have been. Dropbox has been targeted in April, 2017, via smartly crafted emails that look legitimate. One of the scams involving Dropbox was trying to harvest users’ Dropbox login credentials using an order request that looked like a legitimate one. The share of spam in email traffic in 2017 fell by 1.68% to 56.63%. The lowest share (52.67%) was recorded in December 2017. The highest (59.56%) belonged to September. In 2017, the Anti-Phishing system was triggered 246,231,645 times on computers of Kaspersky Lab users as a result of phishing redirection attempts.