Phishing fraud hits two year high Phishing attacks reached a record high during the second quarter of 2009, with 151,000 unique attacks, according to a study by brand reputation firm MarkMonitor. Brands in the financial and payment services sectors continue to be the favourite targets for fraudulent emails that attempt to trick users into handing over their …
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The volume of phishing emails that I receive has gone up dramatically this month - multiplied by a factor of about 4 for the bank with which I bank, at least doubled for others, and new bank names appear in some of them. Only a small proportion of them are trapped (because of Trojans) or warned about and result in 'access denied' (because of links to known phishing sites) by Kaspersky. My bank also sends me occasional good and useful emails... Rather frightening when you think of all those people on-line without up to date (or any) IS. Maybe I should ditch the mailbox names that they use and start a new life...
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