Microsoft's users were the most targeted by phishing campaigns among the top targeted brands with attackers using thousands of domains specifically registered to be used for harvesting credentials from their targets.
6,035 domains were used to host 120 phishing kit variants according to
Akamai’s 2019 State of the Internet / Security Report, with users and employees of high tech companies being the ones most attacked.
"Following that, financial services, with 3,658 domains and 83 kit variants, was the second most-targeted industry," Akamai says. "E-Commerce (1,979 domains, 19 kit variants) and media (650 domains, 19 kit variants) rounded out the list. In all, more than 60 global brands were targeted during the reporting period."
Overall, Microsoft, PayPal, DHL, Dropbox, DocuSign, and LinkedIn were the top targets for phishers throughout this year in the attacks Akamai's researchers detected.
