"Financial Services Accounting For Nearly 40% of All Phishing URLs"

Researchers at Vade discovered that there had been a significant jump in phishing attacks since the start of the year, with a 281 percent spike in May and another 284 percent increase in June, for a total of 4.2 billion phishing emails detected by Vade in June alone.  Researchers identified Crédit Agricole as the most impersonated brand during their research, with 17,555 unique phishing URLs, followed by Facebook, with 17,338, and Microsoft, with 12,777.  The researchers found that WhatsApp phishing increased 321% over H2 2021 and 36.4% of all unique phishing URLs impersonated financial services brands.  The researchers also found that 25% of all unique phishing URLs impersonate social media brands, Netflix phishing declined 51% over H2 2020, and Brazil is the number one phishing country sender.

Help Net Security reports: "Financial Services Accounting For Nearly 40% of All Phishing URLs"