According to the results of last year, Russia seized the first place from the United States in terms of
the placement of fraudulent Internet resources, found out in the international company Group-IB, which specializes in repelling and preventing cyberattacks.
If in the previous three years, most of the blocked phishing resources were located in the United States, in 2019, Russia took first place in this indicator. Hosting services in Russia received 34% of blocked phishing resources, in the US 27%. Panama is in third place, it accounted for 8% of blocking.
The company also indicated that in 2019, the total number of blocked phishing resources increased three times, from 4.4 thousand to 14,093.
According to the Group-IB, earlier scammers stopped their campaigns after they were blocked and switched to other brands. Now they continue to work, replacing the blocked pages with new ones. They also complicated and expanded the mechanisms for implementing phishing attacks.
At the same time, the scammers revised their goals: the number of phishing resources for attacks on cloud storage doubled over the year and the number of fraudulent pages targeting users of Internet service providers tripled. This is due to the desire to get personal and payment data of users.
It is worth noting that Group-IB may require blocking resources as a competent organization that cooperates with the Coordination Center of RU domains.
Kaspersky lab reported in November 2019 that cyber fraudsters have developed a new method of corporate phishing to steal personal data from banks. For example, Bank employees receive an invitation to pass certification with the requirement to enter a username and password from their work email. As a result, fraudsters get access to their correspondence, which may contain files with personal data of credit institution clients.
