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Phishing sites double in April
News April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of unique sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) rose to 55,643 in April 2007...
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News The quantity and quality of phishing attacks grew at an alarming rate in April, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. On Monday, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which was formed last year to share information about phishing attacks...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
Survey: Nearly all phishing from forged addresses
News Almost 95 percent of email fraud and "phishing" reported in May emanated from forged addresses, according to new research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which argued that emerging email-authentication standards could take the sting out of...
[June 29, 2004, 12:00]
Phishing still on the up
News The number of phishing sites reached 1,518 last month, the Anti-Phishing Working Group said in a report released on Wednesday. EarthLink and MSN came up quickly in the stats for November," said David Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working...
[December 16, 2004, 8:40]
eBay takes on phishers with email service
News According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Financial institutions and online retailers are also the targets of email scammers. Peter Cassidy, secretary general for the Anti-Phishing Working Group, said eBay may lead a trend in the industry...
[January 5, 2005, 7:55]
Experts gather for cybercrime conference
News This helps in the overall efforts to combat the cybercriminals," said Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, who is slated to speak at the event later this week. Jevans of the Anti-Phishing Working Group plans to present a...
[January 22, 2007, 15:11]
Automated phishing on the rise, experts say
News Security experts from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have witnessed massive increases in the number of phishing Web sites, which they say suggests that scammers are improving their techniques.
[November 23, 2004, 12:05]
Phishing: How to Keep Your Business from Biting
White Papers According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the number of websites worldwide that infect PCs with password-stealing code more than tripled between 2007 and 2008. Phishing, or fraudulent attempts to acquire passwords and financial...
[May 11, 2009, 9:32]
Wing Lung Leads Local Banks With State-of-the-Art Authentication for e-Banking Customers
White Papers Indeed, online banking was threatened worldwide with more than 23,610 phishing reports registered in February 2007, according to the Phishing Attack Trends Report-February 2007 from the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of businesses and law enforcement officials, said on Thursday that 85 percent of all reported phishing attacks during the month of December directly focused on banks and similar companies.
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Fraudsters catch on to the Net's 'long tail'
News The number of brands exploited by online con artists grew to a record 154 in July, according to a report from online fraud specialist the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Security and operating system vendors have begun taking the phishing...
[September 12, 2006, 12:20]
Cut-price phishing toolkits pose growing threat
News Although phishing kits are nothing new, over the past year their quantity and quality have increased dramatically, according to Dan Hubbard, who is vice president of security research for Websense and a representative of the Anti-Phishing Working...
[October 16, 2006, 9:05]
Firefox to get phishing shield
News A record 7,197 phishing Web sites were spotted in December, according to Anti-Phishing Working Group. An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.
[March 9, 2006, 12:55]
Liberty Alliance takes on ID theft
News So have groups including the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Identity-related crime such as phishing threatens the growth of the Internet, Barrett said. However, Liberty should start by renaming its working group the Identity Fraud Protection Group...
[June 14, 2005, 15:50]
Security experts criticise government database plans
News There's been a 250 percent increase in keyloggers in the last two years, and a hundredfold increase in the number of anti-phishing alerts by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Greg Day, security analyst at McAfee, said that online data theft is...
[January 19, 2007, 11:28]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the past two months, according to research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group on Monday. Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Phishing attacks ease off
News Research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found 13,141 new phishing emails were reported to the organisation in February, an increase of just two percent compared to results from January. The group claims that the monthly growth rate of...
[March 30, 2005, 15:40]
Phishing growing exponentially
News The number of phishing Web sites is increasing by 50 percent every month and fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to fool Internet users into revealing personal information, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's...
[October 12, 2004, 10:45]
Banks dismissive of 'phishing' losses
News According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the number of phishing attacks carried out globally has risen from three to about 50 per week since last November with Australian banks being among the most targeted in the world.
[March 11, 2004, 8:15]
US tops phishing league
News According to an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) report on January's phishing activity, 32 percent of scammers' Web sites were hosted in the United States. These sites are typically hosted on the computers of unsuspecting users, which have been...
[February 28, 2005, 12:55]
