The volume of phishing attacks targeting the financial industry nearly doubled in the second quarter of this year and is the largest quarterly volume Charleston, S.C. firm PhishLabs has ever observed
In its Q2 2017 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report PhishLabs observed a threat landscape that is thriving and volatile as cybercriminals pivot and exploit different targets.
The report recorded a 41% increase in overall phishing volume with more than 210,100 confirmed malicious phishing sites hosted on more than 61,000 unique domains. These attacks targeted 701 brands from 398 parent institutions, a slight increase from the first quarter of 2017, where phishing attacks targeted 664 brands from 388 institutions.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
