This week, the new APWG Global Phishing Report is being today at the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting in Prague. This report is published every six months, detailing how phishers are using domain names, and related trends and attack vectors. Highlights include:
Phishers are now using subdomain registration services more than they are registering regular domain names at domain registrars.
Chinas growing Internet user base is increasingly victimized, and Chinas Taobao.com is now the #1 phishing target in the world.
Average phishing site uptimes dropped, tHey did some by-registrar analysis on a limited set of gTLD domains.
And here is the full report in a PDF:
Phishers are now using subdomain registration services more than they are registering regular domain names at domain registrars.
Chinas growing Internet user base is increasingly victimized, and Chinas Taobao.com is now the #1 phishing target in the world.
Average phishing site uptimes dropped, tHey did some by-registrar analysis on a limited set of gTLD domains.
And here is the full report in a PDF:
