June Phishing Attempts Reach Second Highest Level Ever (News Release) 6/30/2005 - 751 views, 1 Comment
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 30 — Postini, the industry’s leading provider of email security and management services, today announced that phishing attempts in June were once again on the rise and had increased Postini protected its customers from 16,667,444 phishing attempts, a 71 percent average per day increase compared to May. “Phishing attempts will continue to plague enterprise users for the foreseeable future,” said Andrew Lochart, senior director of marketing at Postini. “As long as phishing remains a threat to businesses and their While phishing scams were on the rise in June, there was a decrease in the number of virus infected email messages this month. The number of directory harvest attacks (DHAs) against corporate networks also decreased in June compared with last month. Postini saw a 23 percent drop in the average number of DHA attacks per day against enterprise networks. The top ten viruses for June were: Virus Name Quantity Detected mytob 42,564,787 netsky 9,678,418 mime 5,204,341 bankfraud 4,166,861 bagle 2,984,403 zafi 1,397,793 downloader-abl 1,311,393 mydoom 1,049,130 lovgate 1,025,157 klez 218,789 Postini’s Email StatTrak is available to users at http://www.postini.com/stats
sharply compared with the previous month. The number of phishing attempts, which had been decreasing over the past two months, reached its second highest level since Postini started tracking phishing rates. Only March saw a higher number of phishing attempts from email scam artists in 2005.
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At least one a day… and usually for banks I have no accounts with, or to email addresses that are not associated with any financial transactions.
I find them amusing, albeit annoying.
Comment by Jonathan Murray — 6/30/2005 @ 8:17 pm