SAN FRANCISCO, — Vade Secure, the global leader in predictive email defense, today published the results of its quarterly Phishers’ Favorites report which revealed that although Microsoft remains the top target for phishers, Netflix saw an incredible surge in Dec., making it the second most impersonated brand in Q4 2018. As a result of the increased activity surrounding Netflix, PayPal moved down the list to number three after having spent the past two quarters in the second seat. Banks round out the top five brands as Bank of America sits at number four and Chase at number five.
Additional data from the Q4 Phishers’ Favorites report includes:
“With phishers getting more sophisticated, we’ve seen a surge in the number of orchestrated multi-phased attacks being carried out,” said Adrien Gendre, Chief Solution Architect, Vade Secure. “Their aim isn’t simply to harvest credentials but rather to leverage compromised Office 365 accounts to conduct targeted attacks laterally within the organization. That’s why cybersecurity defenses focused only on the perimeter are outdated. Organizations must rethink email protection to handle those threats coming from inside their organization.”
As with the previous editions (Q2 2018 and Q3 2018), the Phishers’ Favorites report was compiled by tallying the number of new phishing URLs detected each day by Vade Secure and made publicly available on www.IsItPhishing.AI. Vade’s machine learning algorithms identify the brand being impersonated as part of their real-time analysis of the URL and page content. A total of 86 brands are currently tracked and analyzed for purposes of Phishers’ Favorites.
For more information and to dive deeper into the data, please read Vade Secure’s blog post, “Phishers’ Favorites: Microsoft Remains #1 Driven by New Multi-Phased Attacks, while Netflix Claims the #2 Spot with a Big Christmas,” or visit VadeSecure.com.
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About Vade Secure
Vade Secure helps SMBs, enterprises, ISPs and OEMs protect their users from advanced cyberthreats, such as phishing, spear phishing, malware, and ransomware. The company’s predictive email defense solutions leverage artificial intelligence, fed by data from 500 million mailboxes, to block targeted threats and new attacks from the first wave. In addition, real-time threat detection capabilities enable SOCs to instantly identify new threats and orchestrate coordinated responses. Vade Secure’s technology is available as a native, API-based offering for Office 365; as cloud-based solutions; or as lightweight, extensible APIs for enterprise SOCs.
For more information, visit www.VadeSecure.com and follow the company on Twitter @VadeSecure or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/vade-secure/.