Ninety percent of consumer-focused phishing attacks targeted financial institutions, cloudstorage/file hosting sites, webmail and online services, ecommercesites and payment services in 2015, according to PhishLabs' 2016Phishing Trends & Intelligence Report.
The good news that came out of the Charleston, S.C.-basedPhishLabs' report was the share of overall phishing volume atfinancial institutions (including payment services firms)declined in 2015. However, it is still the most targeted industry,with 31% of attacks targeting it.
PhishLabs analyzed more than one million confirmed maliciousphishing sites in 2015. These sites resided on more than 130,000unique domains.
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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.).
