Phishing website grows 166% / month

Within a month, the number of links pointing to phishing websites has increased almost 3 times. The cause of this situation is that cybercriminals are starting to return to using phishing tactics that have been available since the end of 2006 designed to bypass the browser built-in phishing filter.

The online phishing organization (APWG) said the number of phishing website links has increased by 166% - from 20,871 links in March to 55,643 links in April.

" Their goal is to try to overwhelm the mechanism of filtering phishing websites directly integrated in the browser or the attached toolbars, " said Peter Cassidy, APWG's Secretary General. " They often use a lot of different links at the same time, but they all point to the same phishing site ."

This method also does not require them to have multiple domains but simply by creating more subdomains on the domain name platform they already have.

Browsers such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox all exclude phishing websites by relying on a database of identified phishing sites. Tricks that use multiple links seem to be able to overcome this mechanism.

" This is both good news and bad news. The bad news is that there may be many of us becoming victims of online fraud. The good news is that we have discovered weaknesses in the public. Our technology has the right solution to consolidate , "Cassidy said.

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