Weekly Phishing Report – February 29, 2016

Posted February 29, 2016

The following data offers a snapshot into the weekly trends of the top industries being targeted by phishing attacks for the week of February 21-27, 2016.

In this week’s phishing report, we saw a decrease (>10%) in overall phishing activity for the top 20 brands we’re tracking, grouped by industry. Telecommunications saw the largest increase (>150%), followed by Internet Information Services (>35%). Decrease phishing activity for Electronic Payment Systems (>50%) was the main driver for the decrease in overall activity.

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 vide 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.