Valentine’s Day: Phishing email campaigns continue to rise, here’s how to stay safe

Valentine’s Day might be the time for love and romance, but it is also a time when cybercriminals will try and trick users with well-thought out phishing email campaigns. According to Check Point Research, there’s been a surge in malicious phishing email campaigns in the second half of January in the build up to Valentine’s Day.

The cybersecurity firm states that over 400 malicious Valentine’s Day themed individual phishing emails are spotted every week. It also noted that there was a 29 per cent year-on-year increase in Valentine’s Day themed domains registered in January, and out of the 23,000 domains, 523 were found malicious or suspicious.