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Nearly 40,000 phishing attacks hit US financial firms in H1 2026 — automated AI agents and a new Seychelles bulletproof host fuel aggressive new campaigns
1 in 8 phishing URLs used free hosting
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US financial services faced nearly 40,000 phishing URLs during H1 2026
Attackers used 645 hosting providers to distribute financial phishing campaigns
Free hosting carried 12.6% of phishing URLs targeting financial services
Phishing campaigns targeting American financial institutions are spreading across a fragmented web of hosting services, making fraudulent infrastructure difficult to contain.
New research from Netcraft has uncovered almost 40,000 unique phishing URLs connected to US financial services were discovered in the first half of 2026.
Behind those URLs were…
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