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Phishing attacks increase by 17 percent in Nov.
By siliconindia
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Friday, 13 November 2009, 15:29 IST |
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Bangalore: Symantec's Phishing Report for the month of November 2009, shows that there is an increase of 17 percent from the previous month in all phishing attacks. Symantec advised the users to beware of phishers and spammers as this is the high time when they send new attacks via emails, social networking sites and online forums.
Symantec observed 45 percent increase in non-english phishing sites. The company also found that 30 percent of phishing URLs were generated using phishing toolkits; an increase of 24 percent from the previous month. More than 97 Web hosting services were used, which accounted for eight percent of all phishing attacks; a decrease of 19 percent in total Web host URLs when compared to the previous month.
During the first week of each month Symantec issues a State of Spam Report summarizing the spam trends and email threats from the previous month. The State of Spam Report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep you informed of the latest threats to your email.
Symantec urges that protect your computer with knowledge. It is recommended that the user's should be thoughtful before opening and unknown email, suspicious link or an attachment which offers to download something to your PCs.
