Phishers Improve Bait As They Target ISPs
News Phishing attacks are reaching a point of sophistication where even the most Internet-savvy user could be fooled, said the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) on Wednesday. The APWG was formed in November 2003 to provide a forum for financial...
[February 5, 2004, 14:15]
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. However since the APWG results depend on the...
[March 30, 2005, 15:40]
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). Websense is one of the APWG's more than 1,500 corporate members, and it...
[September 12, 2006, 12:20]
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. There is an incorrect assumption that scammers put up their machines in the Far East or...
[February 28, 2005, 12:55]
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]
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 Sites Double In April
News The number of unique sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) rose to 55,643 in April 2007, a massive jump from the 20,871 seen in March, according to the April Phishing Activity Trends report.
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
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]
Phishers Get Smarter
News The overall number of reports continued their upward trend to reach 14,441 for the month, said the APWG, which compiles its report with the help of WebSense. A lot of the recent phishing sites use hijacked servers where the scam is located on the...
[June 6, 2005, 13:20]
Phishing Attacks Hook More And More Victims
News The APWG was formed in November 2003 to provide a forum for financial institutions and other organisations to share information about phishing attacks. The APWG's Phishing Attack Trends Report compares the level of phishing activity recorded by the...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Phishing Attacks Up 20 Percent In June
News There were almost 1,500 unique phishing attacks in June, a monthly increase of 19 percent, according to a report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) on Wednesday. Internet filtering company Websense, which helps the APWG analyse its...
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
Spyware Gets Into Phishers' Tackle Box
News In recent months, the researchers at security software company Websense detected a rise in schemes involving malicious programs known as keystroke loggers, according to the March phishing trends report released on Wednesday by the Anti-Phishing...
[May 5, 2005, 9:15]
Phishing Attacks Up 1,000-fold Since September
News The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which was formed in November 2003 to provide a forum for financial institutions to share information about new phishing campaigns, recently warned its members about an attack that can modify the victim's...
[April 19, 2004, 17:50]
Google Used As Bait In Phishing Scam
News At the same time, the number of spam e-mail campaigns to lure people to phishing sites decreased for the second month in a row, the APWG said. Fraudsters are using a promise of a $400 prize from Google as bait in a new phishing scam aimed at...
[November 10, 2005, 9:50]
Phishing Attacks Soar As More Brands Are Targeted
News The number of unique email-based fraud attacks detected in November 2005 was 16,882, almost double the 8,975 attacks launched in November 2004, said the report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), an industry consortium that...
[January 18, 2006, 16:10]
Survey: Nearly All Phishing From Forged Addresses
News One Achilles' heel of phishing, and other related email threats like spam and viruses, is the reliance on forged 'from' addresses to hide the sender's identity," APWG Chairman Dave Jevans said in a statement.
[June 29, 2004, 12:00]
