In 2022, information security experts from Group-IB blocked 59,000 phishing sites worldwide, of which 7,000 were located in the domains .ru and .рф, this number more than doubled from the previous year. This was reported to socialbites.ca by the press service of Group-IB.
Blocked fake sources stole logins and passwords, bank card data and messenger accounts of users in Russia. For example, last year there was a wave of attacks using phishing resources against Telegram users.
“In 2021, the number of resources blocked on the Internet by the Group-IB Information Security Incident Response Center – CERT-GIB (7/24) was 31,455, while in 2022 their number increased to 59,282. .ru and .rf. The company reported in a report The number of sites has more than doubled, from 3,210 to 7,121, he said.
In the .ru and .рф regions, 20,170 fraud sites were detected, loopholes for fake sites. For comparison: in 2021 there were 15,363 of them.
In 2022, the most popular domain region among scammers was .com – accounting for 33.8% of blocked resources. In second place is .ru (5.3%). The top three were closed by the .org domain (3.4%).
Formerly socialbites.ca Wrote that cybersecurity experts recorded an increase in fraudulent activity before February 23 and March 8.