Cybercriminals increase use of trusted domains to trick victims

Nearly a quarter of malicious URLs are being hosted on trusted domains, as hackers know trusted domain URLs raise less suspicion among users and are more difficult for security measures to block. This is one of the findings of the latest Webroot threat report which also shows 29 percent of detected phishing web pages use HTTPS as a method to trick users into believing they're on a trusted site via the padlock symbol. Among other findings are that one in 50 URLs is now malicious. Phishing is on the rise too, with a 400 percent increase in URLs discovered from January… [Continue Reading]