Phishing Attacks Still At Large
By Jason on September 30, 2009 | Phishing, phishing attacks, email frauds, email scam, online payment system frauds
The online brand protection company MarkMonitor had announced that despite the recent reports about the decreased number of email scams, the phishing attacks have actually reached the two-year record. 151,000 unique attacks have been committed during the 2009 second quarter which shows an increase compared to the last year's same period.
Four out of five email scams were meant to attack the online payment services which makes up a total of 80% of all phishing attacks. Logins, passwords and codes of the internet-based financial services continue to be the online criminals' main target. However, the attempts of stealing the social network accounts via email frauds have also increased in the second quarter of 2009.
The URL path research had revealed that half of the sites associated with the email frauds were hosted by the US-based servers denying the general belief that such attacks are only made by the Asian and East-European organizations.
The MarkMonitor report denies the rumor of declined number of phishing attacks and yet again gives a warning for an online community to be aware and not to trust the emails of uncertain origins.
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