Alarming Phishing Trends

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Alarming Phishing Trends

The number of phishing Web sites skyrocketed in December, as did the number of sites designed to spread password-stealing badware, according to the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

The number of unique phishing sites jumped from 4,630 in November to
7,197 in December, a 55 percent increase. Online scam artists also
targeted a wider range of companies in their phishing sites. One scam found at the end of 2005 targeted customers who shop at Wal-Mart's Web site, telling their their accounts had been compromised.

Another notable phishing attack in December went out in an e-mail impersonating the Internal Revenue Service,
linking to a bogus IRS site that claimed to offer recipients a way to
check on the status of their tax refund. We've seen IRS phishing
attacks before, and we are likely to see more of them in the coming
weeks.

December also brought a massive increase in phishing-based Trojan horse programs as well as keyloggers
-- nasty programs designed to intercept sensitive information the
victim enters into banking, e-commerce or Webmail accounts. According
to the APWG, the number of Web sites using browser vulnerabilities to
attempt keylogger installs exploded to at least 1,912 in December, up
83 percent from November.

That growth was spurred in large part by the discovery of two critical security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser -- MS05-054 and MS06-001
-- that allowed malicious Web sites to install software on the
visitor's computer. The APWG report said its members spotted hundreds
of sites using exploits for those vulnerabilities to install
keystroke-logging software.