APWG | Unifying The Global Response To Cybercrime

Phone-Based Frauds Allow Scammers to Engage with Victims More Personally
The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing attacks using phone calls and text messages have grown unchecked for the past two years, shifting the cybercrime threatscape increasingly toward abuse of telephone services and infrastructure...

For the 3-month period ending January 31, 2024, Interisle Consulting Group processed a staggering 1M reports at our Cybercrime Information Center from our phishing feeds (a 19% increase over the prior quarter). These resources abetted over 500,000 phishing...

APWG 2024 eCrime Conference Focuses on Rolling Back Digital Chaos That’s Come to Rule the Internet and Its Animating Infrastructure in the Last 20 Years
This year’s Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024) in Boston explores the theme of taking back cyberspace from the criminal plexus that has claimed and criminalized so much of the Internet’s infrastructure and fueled new society-scaled...

APWG Members Witnessing Troubling New Surges in Phone-Based Cybercrime
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2024 – The APWG’s Q4 2023 Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that the APWG observed almost five million phishing attacks in 2023, making it the worst year for phishing on record. Even after a decrease in the second quarter...