"Phishing Attacks Skyrocketing, Over 1 million Observed"

Security researchers at APWG in the second quarter of 2022 observed 1,097,811 total phishing attacks, the worst quarter for phishing that APWG has ever observed.  The total for June was 381,717 attacks or phishing sites.  The researchers noted that the number of reported phishing attacks has quadrupled since early 2020 when APWG observed between 68,000 and 94,000 attacks per month.  In the first quarter of 2022, OpSec Security found that phishing attacks against the financial sector, including banks, remained the largest, accounting for 27.6 percent of all phishing attacks.  Attacks against webmail and software-as-a-service (SAAS) providers remained prevalent as well, while attacks against retail/eCommerce sites fell from 17.3 percent to 14.6 percent after the holiday shopping season.  The researchers noted that phishing against social media websites rose to 15.3 percent of all attacks.   Phishing against cryptocurrency targets, such as cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers, was 6.5 percent of the total, which made them more prevalent than attacks against online games, government sites, and telecom services combined.

Help Net Security reports: "Phishing Attacks Skyrocketing, Over 1 million Observed"