Company aims to expand resources to counter cybercrime and provide APWG with another vital data source for monitoring of scams, fraud and phishing

For 2021 APWG’s members will once again come together to bridge the gaps between cybersecurity operations, research and consumer messaging with our fifteenth Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2021).

Interisle Consulting Group has published a new research report, Phishing Landscape 2020: A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Phishing.

Due to their ubiquity in modern web browsers, anti- phishing blacklists are a key defense against large-scale phishing attacks. However, sophistication in phishing websites—such as evasion techniques that seek to defeat these blacklists—continues to grow.

Phishing attacks have reached record volumes in recent years. Simultaneously, modern phishing websites are grow- ing in sophistication by employing diverse cloaking techniques to avoid detection by security infrastructure.