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Cybercriminals focus on the shipping and cloud storage sectors
While the report finds that phishing attacks have occurred most frequently against companies in the Payment, Financial, and the Software-as-a-Service/Webmail sectors in the first half, APWG contributing analysts found two important focus points of cybercrime gang activity:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/10/23/cybercrime-shipping-cloud-storage/
While the report finds that phishing attacks have occurred most frequently against companies in the Payment, Financial, and the Software-as-a-Service/Webmail sectors in the first half, APWG contributing analysts found two important focus points of cybercrime gang activity:
- An increase in the number of phishing attacks using free hosting providers or website builders.
- In the new gTLDs and in ccTLDs, much of the phishing activity was concentrated in a small number of domains.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/10/23/cybercrime-shipping-cloud-storage/