variednews: Specialist MVNO adds CoParenting features
variednews: Specialist MVNO adds CoParenting features: DERBY, DERBYSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, April 20:ParentShield has unveiled a slew of new features to enhance the MVNO's position as the f...
APWG REPORT: Phishing Assaults Double in 2020 and October Breakd All-Time Monthly Records
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9: The APWG's new Phishing Activity Trends Report shows that the number of phishing assaults witnessed by APWG members increased during 2020, wholly doubling over the course of the year. Attacks topped in October 2020, with a high of 225,304 new phishing sites appearing in that month alone, breaking all earlier monthly records. In Brazil, security firm Axur saw a slower growth in the number of phishing attacks that targeted Brazilian companies and consumers in Brazil. But overall, Axur observed almost twice as many such phishing sites in 2020 as it did in 2019, a concerning year-over-year growth. APWG contributor OpSec Security found that phishing that targeted financial institutions was the largest category of phishing in the fourth quarter, at 22.5 percent of all attacks. This category nosed out webmail and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which experienced 22.2 percent of all attacks. Phishing against the social media sector declined slightly to 11.8...
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