Microsoft leads the list of most impersonated companies in phishing
An investigation by Atlas VPN determined that the company leads the phishing list in impersonation
Tech company Microsoft was the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks in 2021, along with illegal streaming websites, as well as the retail and government sectors.
It is one of the conclusions reached by Atlas VPN in a recent report, TreatLabz Phishing, which analyzes phishing attacks with data collected by the Zscaler cloud.
The analysis was conducted to identify critical trends, industries at risk, and common tactics used by cybercriminals over the past year.
The study finds that attackers took advantage of the manufacturer’s brand image to impersonate its products, such as OneDrive and Microsoft 365, in 36.6 % of registered phishing attacks last year.
This percentage is far from the one recorded by illegal streaming websites, which were used by cybercriminals on 13.6 % of the occasions to carry out these scam attacks.
According to Atlas VPN, these web pages are in second position due to the influence of the pandemic, when a large part of the users used them to view and download online content.
Source: dpa
