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February 23, 2006
Phishing on the increase
Phishing Web sites spiralled in December, along with the number of URLS infected with code to steal passwords, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, although their crimeware map of the most current phishing attacks shows Australia wasn't so badly affected.
You might be interested in their white paper on countering identity theft.
And Jeremy Wagstaff - who like us is constantly amazed at the indifference domain administrators display to these serious financial scams [would a class action suit get their interest?] - has discovered a new phishing strategy that uses font trickery to take the customers of financial institutions to bogus online sites.
Posted by cw at February 23, 2006 09:41 AM