Phishing Attacks Up 22% in First Half, Down Significantly in June: Report
The volume of first-half 2021 phishing attacks jumped 22% from a year earlier, but phishing volume in June “dipped dramatically” for the first time in six months, immediately after a very high volume in May, reported PhishLabs Tuesday. Bad actors…
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are using phishing “to fleece proprietary information” in increasingly more sophisticated attacks, “based on growth in areas such as cryptocurrency and sites that use single-sign-on,” said Chief Technology Officer John LaCour. Of the significant decline in bad behavior from May to June, “we’ll continue to monitor through the summer and analyze if we’re seeing a trend in the right direction, or if attackers simply took a summer vacation.”