PhishLabs’ 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report shows how phishing continues to evolve as threat actors adapt to (and exploit) changes in the digital landscape. U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of incidents analyzed during the last year. Financial institutions are back on top as the single most targeted industry, followed by cloud and file storage, and SaaS. Free SSL certificates designed to further boost the illusion of the emails coming from a trusted source saw an overall rise in usage of around 50%.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-80-percent-of-all-phishing-attacks-targeted-us-organizations/

