{"id":45587,"date":"2022-03-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/risk\/vade-releases-2021-phishers-favorites-report"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:00:00","slug":"vade-releases-2021-phishers-favorites-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/vade-releases-2021-phishers-favorites-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vade Releases 2021 Phishers’ Favorites Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2022 \/PRNewswire\/ — Vade<\/a>, a global leader in threat detection and response with one billion protected mailboxes worldwide, today announced its annual Phishers’ Favorites report for 2021. Phishers’ Favorites Year-in-Review is a ranking of the top 20 most impersonated brands in phishing. Facebook, which was in the second spot in 2020, rose to the top spot for 2021, representing 14% of phishing pages, followed by Microsoft, with 13%.<\/p>\n

Phishers’ Favorites 2021 Year-in-Review, which can be read in full here<\/a>, analyzes full-year phishing data captured by Vade’s technology. For this report, Vade analyzed 184,977 phishing pages linked from unique phishing emails between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021.<\/p>\n

Financial services is the most impersonated industry<\/strong><\/p>\n

With six brands in the top 20, financial services was the most impersonated industry of 2021, representing 35% of all phishing pages, rising sharply based on its place at 28% in 2020. Chase, PayPal, and Wells Fargo join the list of the most impersonated financial services brands.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is the most impersonated cloud brand and the top corporate brand in phishing attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft is the second most impersonated brand in phishing attacks and the #1 most impersonated cloud brand, coming in just slightly behind Facebook. The report found that Microsoft phishing attacks sharply increased in sophistication in 2021, with a June attack leveraging automation to populate corporate logos and branding onto Microsoft 365 phishing pages. Joining Microsoft on the list of impersonated cloud brands are Netflix (#12) and Adobe (#15).<\/p>\n

Facebook dominates social media phishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consistently ranked in the top five, Facebook once again dominated all other social media brands on the Phishers’ Favorites list. Other social media brands on the list include WhatsApp (#4) and LinkedIn (#17). Despite other social media brands lagging behind Facebook on the list, social media brands overall represented 24% of all phishing pages, compared to 13% in 2020.<\/p>\n

Additional key findings from the Phishers’ Favorites 2021 report include:<\/strong><\/p>\n