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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Recent Trends in Internet Threats: Common Industries Impersonated in Phishing Attacks, Web Skimmer Analysis and More

Summary: Unit 42 researchers analyzed over 67 million unique malicious URLs, domains and IPs from July to December 2022, a 52% increase over the first half of the year, with more than 12 million HTTP requests and 60 million DNS requests to them daily. Malicious JavaScript samples exceeded 4 million hosted on 4.8 million URLs and 1.6 million hostnames, a 99.3% rise in URLs containing malicious JavaScripts, while PDFs made up 96.0% of the 1.9 million malicious files distributed by 2.7 million URLs.

What's compelling: Over 85% of malicious sites were hosted in the top eight countries, led by the United States, Brazil and China, and 4.8% of malicious domains were subdomains of well-known web hosting services that inherit their reputation - including a skimmer on a Tranco-ranked motor retail site that harvested logins and payment data through an injected motor.js file.

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