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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

One example is the so-called PayLeak caper , a large-scale phishing and redirect campaign targeting those using their smartphones to visit the websites of premium newspapers and magazines. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems. Smart attacks.

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