According to the investigation conducted by experts at TrendMicro the number of HTTPS phishing sites is increasing and it will double by the end of 2014.
Google considers security a top priority for this reason the company is starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. The scope is to encourage the adoption of HTTPS, but the effort was understood by the cyber criminal ecosystem which is improving its techniques. Recently, experts at TrendMicro have discovered a phishing site using HTTPS and the case isn’t isolated, the number of phishing websites is increasing and researchers believe it can double for the end of the 2014.The experts are also observing the adoption of HTTPS for mobile phishing. As explained by Paul Pajares, Fraud Analyst at TrendMicro, use HTTPS for phishing activities doesn’t need a supplementary effort for cyber criminals, they can either compromise sites that already use HTTPS, or use legitimate websites that already use HTTPS.
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