The Phishing Attack Trends Report analyzes phishing attacks reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group via the organization’s website or via email.
http://www.antiphishing.org or email submission via reportphishing@antiphishing.org. The Anti-Phishing Working Group phishing attack repository is the Internet’s most comprehensive archive of email fraud and phishing attacks.
Highlights:
• Number of unique phishing attacks reported in May: 1197
• Peak number of unique phishing attacks per week reported in May: 321
• Organization most targeted by phishing attacks in May: Citibank (370)
• Business sector most targeted by phishing attacks in May: Financial Services
• Percentage of phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses: 95%
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In May, Citibank was (once again) the company whose brand was hijacked most often by phishers, although this represents a significant 22% drop in volume from the previous month.
Over the past 7 months that phishing attacks have been reported to the APWG, its clear that phishers have focused their efforts on Citibank, eBay and Paypal.
So some more interesting analysis by the APWG with phishing still on the increase. Maybe the release of the touted security features in Windows XP service pack 2 will help reduce some of these attacks to the masses?…only time will tell
Read the full Trend Report (PDF):
http://www.antiphishing.org/APWG_Phishing_Attack_Report-May2004.pdf
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