Weekly Phishing Report – February 1, 2016

Posted February 1, 2016

Phishing Report: Top Targets

Week of January 24 – 30, 2016
Author: Robert McDaniel

In this week’s phishingPhishing: The fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. report, we saw an increase (>15%) in overall phishing activity for the top 20 brands we’re tracking, grouped by industry. Internet Content Providers saw the largest increase (>215%), followed by Government (>95%), and Computer Hardware (>50%). Computer Software  saw the greatest decrease in phishing activity (>40%).

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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