Proportion of phishing sites using brand names in 2020

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Sep 28, 2022
In 2020, it was found that nearly 30 percent of phishing sites used brand names in their domain address. Meanwhile, a slightly lower proportion used brand names in their path only. Overall however, almost half of phishing websites did not use any brand names in their URL.

Proportion of phishing sites using brand names in the hostname, path, or both in 2020

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Release date

October 2020

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

September 2020

Number of respondents

81,619*

Supplementary notes

*Phishing sites URL obtained from:
• Phishing Database: 78,411 phishing URLs of which 37,578 were active as of September 2020
• OpenPhish: 3,208 phishing URLs, all of which were active as of September 2020.

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