Weekly Phishing Report – December 28, 2015

Phishing Report: Top Targets

Week of December 20-26, 2015
Author: Robert McDaniel

In this week’s 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. activity report, we saw an increase (>35%) in overall phishing activity for the top 20 brands we’re tracking, grouped by industry. Banking (>145%) and Computer Hardware (>100%) saw the greatest increases in phishing activity last week.  While we saw an increase in almost all industries last week, Telecommunications (>15%) was the only industry which showed a slight drop.

Our Top 20 Phishing Report offers a snapshot into the weekly trends of the top industries that are being targeted by phishing attacks. By pulling information from major ISPs, partners, clients, feeds, and our own proprietary honeypots and web crawlers, we are able to get a 360-degree view of the phishing landscape. The percentages posted on our blog 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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