Phishing on the rise
One in three malicious emails a phish, says MessageLabs.
A report on the current state of digital security has revealed that phishing scams constitute a growing danger to
computer users' privacy, and to their finances. According to
MessageLabs' August report,
one in 321 emails sent in August was a phish, up from one in 461 in July, making up a third of all 'malicious' mails.
Almost 65% of all email was classed as spam, also up on previous figures but far below the peak of two years ago.
Numerous banks, insurance houses,
charities, online stores and
stock traders have all warned of known attacks in recent weeks, while
perrenial targets such as eBay and PayPal have seen increasing
sophistication in phishing attempts aimed at their customers.
Fighting the problem are, among others, the makers of web browsers, and
search giants Google and Yahoo.
Find out more about the phishing problem at the Virus Bulletin conference (11-13 October, Montréal), where Jamz Yaneza (Trend Micro), Michael Morgan (IBM)
and Dmitri Alperovitch (CipherTrust) will each present papers on pertinent aspects of the phishing problem. See the full programme
here or click here to register now.
5 September 2006
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