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One-third of phishing pages are active less than a day, according to a new analysis that finds the first hours a phishing page is online are the most dangerous for users.
In their investigation on the life cycle of phishing pages, Kaspersky researchers analyzed 5,307 examples of pages from July 19 through Aug. 2, 2021. Of these, 1,784 were inactive after the first day of monitoring, and several ceased to exist in the first hours. One-quarter were inactive within 13 hours of monitoring, and half lasted less than 94 hours, their research discovered.
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