Stolen credentials are big business

Phishing is a regular topic here on the Panda Security blog. Mainly because it presents such a risk to our users. Our articles tend to focus on how hackers reuse stolen credentials to compromise accounts to commit crimes like identity theft or fraud.

But the reality is that phishing is a profitable activity itself. 

Hackers are selling your account details

Phishing attacks have one purpose – to steal your usernames and passwords. Cybercriminals use carefully crafted messages to trick you …

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