The following data offers a snapshot into the weekly trends of the top industries being targeted by phishingPhishing: The use of emails that appear to be from a legitimate, trusted source that are enticed to trick recipients into entering valid credentials including personal information such as passwords or credit card numbers into a fake platform or service. LookingGlass Cyber (n) - tailoring an attack (such as email) to garner trust and credentials that are then used maliciously. The preverbal digital version of the ol' hook and bait. attacks for the week of October 15 – October 21, 2017.
This week, we saw a slight increase in overall phishing activity – just greater than 5% – for the top 20 brands we monitor. The industries that saw the largest increases were Social Networks (>50%), Internet Search & Navigation Services (>50%), and eCommerce (>45%).
Only three industries saw decreases in phishing activity at or lower than 10%: Banking, Computer Hardware, and Electronic Payment Systems.
By pulling information from major Internet Service Providers (ISP), partners, clients, feeds, and our own proprietary honey pots and web crawlers, we are able to get a 360-degree view of the phishing landscape. The percentages posted are based on the sum of the phishing threats of the top 20 brands, and do not include anything below the top 20 threshold.
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