Phishing on the rise, says APWG Report
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Phishing is alive and thriving, according to the recently released report from the Anti Phishing Working Group (APWG). Unique phishing attacks reported to APWG reached an all time high in Q3 of 2009 – up 10% from the previous record. (Q4 data is not yet available.)
You can find the report at http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_report_Q3_2009.pdf
Are people getting smart about phishing? Yes, but the attacks seem to be getting smarter, and more targeted. More than half of the reported attacks targeted the financial services industry, with the payment services industry next in line with 26%.
It’s no time to be complacent. Protect your accounts with strong authentication, which foils phishing attacks.
(Disclosure: TriCipher is a corporate sponsor of APWG, but did not contribute to the report.)
