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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:42 am Post subject: Criminals are finding new ways to trick consumers |
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Criminals are deploying more targeted ways of using legitimate brands on the Internet to trick consumers into revealing their confidential payment account information, such as account numbers and passwords, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, or APWG, says in its latest Phishing Activity Trends Report, which covers the second half of 2010.
Phishing attacks are efforts by criminals to make an e-mail or web site look like that of legitimate brands to typically try to convince unwitting consumers to click to a phishing site to update their payment account information. Criminals then usually either sell that information to other criminals or use it to conduct fraudulent purchases.
The APWG report notes that the number of phishing attacks actually declined by 6% in the second half of 2010 compared to the first half, but that there were increases in both the number of brands attacked and the number of brand-domain pairs, which indicates the number of unique URLs that occur per domain. For example, if several URLs target a brand but are actually hosted on the same domain that brand-domain pair counts as one instead of several. By compiling data on the number of brand-domain pairs, the APWG shows whether criminals are trying to attack brands with more or fewer fraudulent web site domains.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/08/24/criminals-are-finding-new-ways-trick-consumers |
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