Summarizes phishing trends for 2013 as outlined in the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Global Phishing Survey 1H 2013.

1. Phishing Trends 2013
A Summary Of The
APWG Global Phishing
Survey 1H 2013

2. Survey Covered
January 1 – June 30th
2013

3. Covered Traditional
Phishing Tactics
Spear-Phishing

4. 72,758
Phishing Attacks
Worldwide

5. Mass Compromises
Led
To
27%
Of All Phishing Attacks

6. Use Of URL Shorteners
Decreased Significantly

7. Attacks Used
53,685
Unique Domains Names

8. Phishers Continue To
Register Domains for
Malicious Use

9. 12,173
53,685
phishing
domains
Registered By Phishers*

10. 23%
Suspected Malicious
Domain Registration

11. 82%
Of Malicious Domain
Registrations Were In Three
Top-Level Domains:
.COM
.TK
.INFO

12. Of Phishing
Targets or
Brands Is Up
1,244
phishing domains
used the brand name or a variation

13. 720 Institutions Targeted
99
from last survey

14. 44 Hours 39 Minutes
Average Uptimes For
Phishing Attacks
Are Climbing

15. 2
Average And Median Uptimes Are Twice Those of 1H2012

16. What Does All This
Mean To Businesses?

17. Phishing Remains A
Real Threat

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