In our continued expansion and exploration of data from this year's annual Phishing Trends and Intelligence report it's time to take a closer look into free hosts. More specifically, the free hosts and domains that threat actors abuse in order to further distribute phishing attacks. While phishing sites that abuse free hosts don't make up the majority, the use of them is increasing dramatically...

As more of the web further embrace HTTPS and SSL certs, it's becoming a requirement that threat actors use it, too. By the end of Q1 2019, more than half of all phishing sites have employed the use of HTTPS, now up to 58%. This is a major milestone and shows that threat actors actions often mirror that of the majority of users. “In Q1 2019, 58 percent of phishing sites were using SSL...

The United States is once again, and for the foreseeable future, the most targeted country by threat actors' phishing attacks. Making up an astonishing 84% of all phishing volume, the U.S. saw a single percent decline from 85% last year. But... While this sounds like a positive, the number of attacks went up by more than 60,000 in 2018. By comparison, the number of attacks in 2017 only went up...

Back in the olden days of the internet, when AOL's dial-up connection still made horrible sounds prior to getting you access to your inbox, phishing attacks were born. Somewhere in the mid-1990s, internet-based social engineering attacks were born and designed to capture credentials on AOL by way of a program called AOHell, and expanded on to stealing credit card numbers or other private...