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Google sees 350 percent increase in phishing websites during COVID-19 pandemic, report reveals
March 26, 2020 / By Christopher Carbone | Fox News
Hackers have been trying to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis, with a new report revealing a 350 percent increase in phishing websites over the last three months.
Atlas VPN gathered the numbers of phishing websites detected by Google and compared them.
In January, Google registered a total of 149,195 active phishing websites, according to the report. That number increased to 293,235 the following month. When looking at March versus January, the number of total phishing websites skyrocketed by 350 percent, hitting 522,495.
