PayPal Tops List of Most Imitated Brands

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/paypal-tops-list-of-most-imitated/

PayPal has knocked Microsoft off the top spot to become the brand most imitated in phishing attacks.
The payment facilitator was accorded this dubious honor today with the publication of Vade Secure's Phishers' Favorites report for Q3 2019.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 600 million protected mailboxes worldwide to determine which organizations email scammers deign to pose as most frequently. The resulting report lists the 25 most aped organizations.
Pole position was tenaciously held by Microsoft for five consecutive quarters before PayPal bumped the famous software vendor down to second place in the third quarter of 2019.
"You can no longer identify phishing based on poor design, typos, or bad grammar; they’re well designed and well written," Adrien Gendre, Vade Secure’s chief solutions architect, told Infosecurity Magazine.

https://www.vadesecure.com/wp-content/uploads/VS_Infographic_Phishers_Favorites_Q3_2019_EN.pdf

 

[DeepWeb]

That makes sense to me. All I ever get is Paypal and "reset your Facebook password" on emails that don't have either.