Comment by megous

5 years ago

2 millions phishing sites and counting... with 40000 websites added each week.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/overview...

I guess the automation started in 2007 or so.

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forgotmypw17  5 years ago

Like some kind of perverse blockchain, no site is ever removed, even though most phishing sites don't live long.

jedberg  5 years ago

I think you mean 2017? 2007 is when the feature launched.

  • megous  5 years ago

    january/february 2007 looks like the time the list jumped from a few hundred to tens of thousands of sites.

    • jedberg  5 years ago

      That was the normal volume of manually identified sites at the time. Before 2007 there weren’t a lot of participants because it was in beta.

    • ehsankia  5 years ago

      Malware may be easier to catch, but for phishing, it was fairly small (under 150k) until around 2016 where it starts growing linearly.