<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Everyone</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>As advised by one of my SSAC Colleagues, Greg Aaron, some sobering figures from the Latest Anti-Phishing Working Group report:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q4_2016.pdf" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q4_2016.pdf</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><o:p class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The APWG has released its latest Phishing Trends Report. Some key findings in this report:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><ul type="disc" class="" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2016 was the worst year for phishing ever. The total number of phishing attacks observed by the APWG in 2016 was a record 1,220,523, a 65% increase over 2015. <o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In the fourth quarter of 2004, the APWG saw 1,609 phishing attacks per month. In the fourth quarter of 2016, APWG saw an average of 92,564 phishing attacks per month, an increase of 5,753% over 12 years.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Fraudsters in Brazil are using both traditional phishing and social media to defraud Internet users. They are also using technical tricks to make it harder for responders to stop theses scams.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Phishers concentrated on fewer targets during the holiday season, and hit fewer lower-yielding or experimental targets.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Phishers didn’t need to choose domain names that help fool victims.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></o:p></div><div class=""><o:p class=""><br class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><o:p class="">I have not yet read the report myself but will plan to do so in the next few days.</o:p></div><div class=""><o:p class=""><br class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><o:p class="">Cheers, Julie</o:p></div><div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>