Fraudsters Customizing Attacks with Victims’ Home Addresses and Images, Frightening Victims with Phone Calls and Text Messages The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that scammers are approaching potential victims in very direct, often...
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Phone-Based Frauds Allow Scammers to Engage with Victims More Personally The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing attacks using phone calls and text messages have grown unchecked for the past two years, shifting the cybercrime...
For the 3-month period ending January 31, 2024, Interisle Consulting Group processed a staggering 1M reports at our Cybercrime Information Center from our phishing feeds (a 19% increase over the prior quarter). These resources abetted...
APWG 2024 eCrime Conference Focuses on Rolling Back Digital Chaos That’s Come to Rule the Internet and Its Animating Infrastructure in the Last 20 Years This year’s Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024) in...
APWG Members Witnessing Troubling New Surges in Phone-Based Cybercrime CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2024 – The APWG’s Q4 2023 Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that the APWG observed almost five million phishing attacks in 2023, making it...
APWG’s Counter-cybercrime R&D Forge Proffers Programs for Education, Awareness and Alerting Every Day of the Year
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 28, 2022
In support of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022, APWG is reminding all counter-cybercrime communities of the awareness, education and cybercrime-reporting utilities that the global association maintains for industry and consumers worldwide.
This year’s CSAM campaign theme — “See Yourself in Cyber“ — speaks directly to APWG cybercrime suppression objectives, including the CSAM imperative for 2022 to recognize and report phishing — a cybersecurity standard operating procedure (SOP) that APWG enabled programmatically in 2004 with its phishing mail reporting service — the same year CSAM was established by presidential declaration.
The APWG’s three awareness and education programs for industry and consumers support that the activist motivations of the CSAM 2022 campaign are:
Pull the Alarm: Report Phishing to reportphishing@apwg.org and Be the First to Point to the Bad Guys
The APWG Report Phishing forward program has routed billions of phishing email lures to industrial processes and analysts since it was formally established in 2004, a mechanism used by the general public, commercial enterprises, national governments and multilateral treaty organizations worldwide. Currently, the Report Phishing forward service processes a half million reports per month.
If you have received a suspicious or obviously malicious phishing email, you can forward those to APWG for analysis and processing by APWG member companies and institutions.
The best way to do this is to simply forward the suspected phishing email to reportphishing@apwg.org. Forwarding suspected phishing emails to APWG contributes directly to fraud and crime prevention services to protect users and track criminal activity.
If your email client supports the option to “Forward As Attachment,” please use it as this will provide APWG’s systems with more detail for our member institutions to trace and monitor phishing websites.
All data is handled responsibly and under contract with the APWG-vetted member community.
APWG Proffers Awareness Jujitsu for Web Hosting Industry: Replace Phishing Pages With Educational Messaging
In 2009, APWG and the Carnegie Mellon CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) established a redirect utility for ISPs that forwards users clicking on links to decommissioned phishing web pages to a special page of educational tips and advice.
The Phishing Education Landing Page replaces phishing pages with a redirect script that sends users to educational instruction when they click on phishing URLs — instead of a confusing and largely blank Error 404 message.
As part of the process for shutting down a phishing website, APWG requests that ISPs, registrars, and parties with control of a phishing page to redirect visitors to phishing websites to the Phishing Education Landing Page at http://education.apwg.org/r
The APWG CMU Phishing Education Landing Page has been in continuous operation since 2009, reminding millions of credulous consumers to take care in their web-borne travels. The educational messaging is presented in one of 21 languages, calibrated to the language settings of users’ browsers.
The STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Provides Tested Messaging for Reminding Users of Best Cyber Practices
The STOP. THINK. CONNECT. program is a cybersecurity public awareness campaign of shared assets promoted by industry, NGOs and national government deployments — and through cooperative relationships with multilateral treaty organizations. Currently, the campaign is deployed in dozens of countries.
STOP. THINK. CONNECT. was conceived and initially proposed as a Messaging Convention by the APWG to its members in 2008 as a way to optimize user awareness and education by unifying the cybersecurity awareness messaging they receive and reducing the clutter of uncoordinated, inconsonant efforts.
The campaign has been deployed by cabinet ministries, national CERTs, government agencies and NGOs in some 25 nations — the first in the United States in 2010. Most recently, the Messaging Convention has completed cooperative agreements with ministries in South America and Central Asia. See: https://messagingconvention.org/national-curators
The STOP. THINK. CONNECT. slogan and badge and advisory suite is a complete package for a national, regional or localized cybersecurity awareness campaign and is offered at no cost and with no restriction on educational uses of the assets.
The organizing committee of the 17th annual Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime 2022) announced today that the conference would extend its deadline for peer-review submissions to Sept. 23, responding to a number of requests...
Using data collected at the Cybercrime Information Center, Interisle Consulting Group studied how phishers acquire and use Internet resources for these purposes. In this report, we ask and answer, “How much phishing is taking place?,...
Interisle Consulting Group has published its annual Malware Landscape 2022: A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Malware. The study analyzes 2.5 million records of distinct malware events collected by the Cybercrime Information Center...
Retreat of Cybercrime Gangs Reduces Ransomware Propagation by 25 Percent in 1Q 2022 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the first quarter of 2022 the APWG observed 1,025,968 total phishing attacks—the worst...
APWG Announces Opening of Submissions to its 17th Annual Peer-Reviewed Conference on Cybercrime Research APWG‘s Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime), the world’s only peer-reviewed conference convened exclusively for cybercrime research, this week announced...
A seminar on improving cyber security measures for small and medium-sized enterprises was recently held at Techno-Arc SHIMANE in Hokuryocho, Matsue City. Shinichi Tankyo from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), an international non-profit organization that...
Company aims to expand resources to counter cybercrime and provide APWG with another vital data source for monitoring of scams, fraud and phishing
Following up on the June 2021 report of cyber investigators and anti-abuse service providers on the ongoing impacts of ICANN’s implementation of the EU GDPR, the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data (Temporary Specification, adopted...
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).
Goal of the 1st Global Online Scam Summit (GOSS) is to let Consumer Protection Agencies, Law Enforcement Bureaus, Governments, NGOs and Commercial Organizations work together to fight online fraud more effectively on a global scale...
Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has entered into a partnership with Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), an international coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime. As an APWG member, Group-IB...
Interisle Consulting Group has published a new research report, Phishing Landscape 2020: A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Phishing.
The research papers to be published in conjunction with the Virtual 2020 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research have been selected. Register and join the event to be hosted November 16 – 19, 2020 to see...
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.
APWG members-only COVID-19 Cybercrime webinar. The program will examine how the pandemic has affected phishing and cybercrime overall.
Dave Piscitello gave at the Council of Europe’s Cyebrcrime Convention OCTOPUS Conference in November 2019?
For 2020 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 2020).
Join us for the APWG.EU’s fifth annual Symposium on Global Cybersecurity Awareness by sharing your expertise and informing our efforts to make cybersecurity awareness and education a primary global defense and prevention mechanism against cybercrime...
eCrimeEU 2020 is being presented in collaboration with INTERPOL, the official host of the event at the agency’s headquarters in Lyon, France this Spring. This event will present state-of-the-art research into cybercrime investigations, forensic techniques...
Meet and mingle with industry, policy and government leaders in security and privacy at the Nonprofits on the Loose soirée. Enjoy good food, drink and music while networking and having a great time.
The 2019 eCrime Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards were announced at the Symposium on Electronic Crime Research held in Pittsburgh on November 13, 14 & 15.
This year ́s eCrimeEU will present and consider current research projects on cybercrime investigations, forensic techniques and infrastructure defense against cyber-attacks and manipulation. The symposium’s operational and research insights for fighting electronic crime will be...
The EU GDPR establishes personal data protections and privacy. GDPR affects organizations worldwide: any entity that collects or processes personal data of EU citizens and residents has obligations to protect that data. Such broadly applicable...
Summary Phishing that targeted cloud storage and file hosting sites fell, while phishing against payment processors and banks remained high Phishing remains most prevalent in the old, large gTLD .COM. But phishing is higher than...
Summary The number of confirmed phishing sites declined as 2018 proceeded. Detection of phishing sites has become harder because phishers are obfuscating phishing URLs with multiple redirections. Phishing that targeted SaaS and webmail services doubled...
Summary Phishing that targeted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and webmail services became the biggest category of phishing. At 36 percent of all phishing attacks, it eclipsed phishing against the payment services category for the first time. The...
The fourth annual Symposium on Cybersecurity Awareness explores the exchange of best practices for cybersecurity awareness campaign deployment at the national and transnational levels. Join us in Bucharest, Romania on June 26 – 27, 2019.
2018 SYMPOSIUM ON POLICY IMPEDIMENTS TO CYBERCRIME DATA EXCHANGE BARCELONA, SPAIN | MAY 31 & JUNE 1, 2018 This year’s sessions will expand to two days instead of one, and will try to double the audience, from 100...
FloCon provides a forum for exploring large-scale, next-generation data analytics in support of security operations. FloCon is geared toward operational analysts, tool developers, researchers, security professionals, and others interested in applying cutting-edge techniques to analyze...
More information LACNIC – LACNOG one of the most important Internet events in the region that brings together experts and representatives of academia, civil society, the private sector, governments, and the telecommunications industry. The event...
CODE BLUE, hosted in Tokyo October 29 & November 2, 2018, is an international conference where the world’s top class information security specialists gather to give cutting edge talks, and is a place for all...
For 2019 APWG’s members will once again come together to bridge the gaps between cybersecurity operations, research and consumer messaging with our fourteenth Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2019).
ICANN Org has proposed an accreditation program to provide tiered access to non-public WHOIS data. This program would involve “codes of conduct which would establish the standardized criteria, limitations, and responsibilities for granting access to non-public...
To: Goran Marby, CEO, ICANN Cherine Chalaby, COB, ICANN Rod Rasmussen, Chairman, ICANN SSAC From: Dave Jevans, on behalf of the Anti-Phishing Working Group Members and Board of Directors Dear Sirs, The AntiPhishing Working Group...
DAVE PISCITELLO, VP SECURITY, ICANN AND APWG BOARD OF DIRECTORS Phishing has long been associated with cybercrimes that use deception – particularly, social engineering – to dupe victims into disclosing personal or financial account data. Once disclosed,...
For the past several months we’ve all heard about the new European Union (EU) privacy law that went into effect a few weeks ago – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)(EU-2016/679). Some parties had suggested...
The new European Union Privacy Regulations, fondly known as the GDPR (EU-2016/679) took effect in late May, 2018. If you listened to some crime fighters we would all be dead by now as the criminals...
ECRIME 2018 – SAN DIEGO, CA – MAY 15, 16 & 17 For 2018 APWG’s members will once again come together to bridge the gaps between cybersecurity operations, research and consumer messaging with our thirteenth...
