Phishing Study from Interisle Consulting Group analyzes 15 million phishing attacks collected over four years and reveals how and where cybercriminals find free or cheap resources for phishing campaigns.
Phishing Landscape 2024 Our Interisle team today announced the publication of an industry report, Phishing Landscape 2024, A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Phishing. Interisle’s fourth annual study examines nearly four million phishing reports collected from May 2023 to April 2024 and provides historical measurements using over 15 million phishing reports collected at the Cybercrime Information Center over a four year period. Findings from the study: • The total number of phishing attacks grew to just under 1.9 million incidents worldwide. • Phishing attacks hosted at subdomain providers increased by 450,000 reported names, representing 24% of all phishing attacks. • The use of the decentralized InterPlanetary File System to host and launch phishing attacks also increased 1,300%. • After the demise of the phish-friendly Freenom, cybercriminals moved to using inexpensive domain names in new gTLDs. 42% of all domains reported for phishing were registered in new gTLDs, compared to 25% last year. • The registration of high volumes of domain names at one time (bulk registration) accounts for 27% of all domain names used in phishing attacks. • Four of the top five hosting providers used by phishers to host phishing attacks were based in the United States. • Domain name registration policies significantly affect the level of phishing in a TLD. Robust customer verification requirements adopted by ccTLDs in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region correlate with lower levels of phishing activity. Phishing is a global threat. Fighting it effectively will require worldwide policy and legislative attention, the cooperation of domain name registries and registrars, Internet and web hosting service providers, and national and international government agencies. Interisle offers several measures to disrupt the phishing supply chain and effectively remediate phishing attacks, including adoption of digital identity verification services, delayed delegation of suspicious names, and trusted reporter programs. URL: See https://lnkd.in/e8mp6-v7 Press release: https://lnkd.in/epetF7U2 #phishing #cybercrime #cybercrimesupplychain #dnsabuse #digitalidentifyverification #trustedreporter