Increase in Number of Phishing Attacks

by Anand on June 4th, 2008 Share on    

There has been a spurt in the number of Phishing messages sent in the past few months. The second half of 2007 saw a 5 percent increase in the number of phishing messages sent across the internet. The total number of phishing messages traced in this time was 207,547. This is equal to 1134 messages every single day!

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1 Growth of Phishing Websites @ Tech Crunchies – Internet Statistics and Numbers { 10.03.09 at 6:49 am }

[...] Digg Facebook Google Yahoo! Buzz Twitter StumbleUpon Follow me on Twitter The number of phishing websites is again on the rise and is highest since April 2007 when there were 55,653 phishing websites in [...]

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