📚 Global Phishing Numbers Rise as Hosting Firms Fail to Respond
💡 Newskategorie: IT Security
🔗 Quelle: news.softpedia.com
The total number of malicious phishing URLs spread on the Internet jumped 14 percent to 4.44 million in Q2 2016 and if current trends continue, will break the 8 million phishing pages mark in the next 18 months, by the end of 2017. This data comes via the Cyren Cyberthreat Report, which this quarter focused on global phishing operations. The same report also highlights that half of today's phishing sites disappear after 24 hours, either taken down by the crooks, ISPs, or security researchers. The company's analysis of phishing attacks for the last three months reveals that almost a fifth of all phishing pages don't last more than three hours, with only 40 percent of the entire phishing pages lasting more than two days. A PhishMe study from December 2015 revealed that phishing attacks are ...