Baiting for small fish or a whale: Here is how scammers customise their phishing attacks to steal money

Baiting for small fish or a whale: Here is how scammers customise their phishing attacks to steal money

Online scams are on the rise in India with scammers various methods to trick people and steal their money. One such tactic is phishing. And this tactic is being used to trick both individuals and organisations by making them share sensitive information.

Between December 2024 and January 2025, researchers at the KnowBe4 Threat Lab noted a 98 percent increase in phishing campaigns hosted via Russian top-level domains (TLDs). The special thing about this is that these domains are operated by so-called ‘bullet-proof' domain hosts. They are known to continue running reported malicious websites that are abused for phishing attacks and abuse reports on [...] The article Phishing attackers are focusing…

Between December 2024 and January 2025, KnowBe4 researchers found a 98 percent increase in phishing campaigns hosted by Russian TLDs.