- Jun 24, 2016
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AV-Comparatives publishes test results of security companies passing the 2017 phishing challenge
The independent security software tester AV-Comparatives released the 2017 results of the yearly anti-phishing test. This yearly qualification test is the most comprehensive and challenging anti-phishing test available.
Relevance of specialized Anti-Phishing protection
Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive personal or financial information such as usernames, passwords, credit card and banking details for malicious and fraudulent purpose by posing as a reputable entity or person. Phishing attempts typically contain a message (the bait) in a trustworthy look and feel containing a link (the hook) to a malicious website. According to studies of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Nurnberg nearly 80 percent of the people are aware of the risks of unknown links in electronic communication, but nearly half of them click on these links anyway when the message is promising or looks authentic.
Four security vendors pass the 2017 challenge
Security products passing the challenge have proven to successfully block at least 90% of malicious URL’s. These URL’s were fresh and active phishing campaigns, which we collected, verified and analyzed through our real-world malware testing environment. The freshness of our test set is what makes our phishing protection test so challenging and unique.
https://www.av-comparatives.org/anti-phishing-test/
The independent security software tester AV-Comparatives released the 2017 results of the yearly anti-phishing test. This yearly qualification test is the most comprehensive and challenging anti-phishing test available.
Relevance of specialized Anti-Phishing protection
Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive personal or financial information such as usernames, passwords, credit card and banking details for malicious and fraudulent purpose by posing as a reputable entity or person. Phishing attempts typically contain a message (the bait) in a trustworthy look and feel containing a link (the hook) to a malicious website. According to studies of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Nurnberg nearly 80 percent of the people are aware of the risks of unknown links in electronic communication, but nearly half of them click on these links anyway when the message is promising or looks authentic.
Four security vendors pass the 2017 challenge
Security products passing the challenge have proven to successfully block at least 90% of malicious URL’s. These URL’s were fresh and active phishing campaigns, which we collected, verified and analyzed through our real-world malware testing environment. The freshness of our test set is what makes our phishing protection test so challenging and unique.
https://www.av-comparatives.org/anti-phishing-test/
