US Continues to Lead As Top Country Hosting Phishing Attacks

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US Continues to Lead As Top Country Hosting Phishing Attacks

By CircleID Reporter
June 29, 2009, 9:31 pm PDT Views: 7,971 Add Comment

Recent study indicates that US continues to widen its lead as the number one country when it comes to hosting phishing sites. According to the latest Brandjacking Index just released by MarkMonitor, US-hosted phishing sites grew by ten percent from last quarter—up from 36 percent to 46 percent. Canada is now at second position with 4.7 percent of all phishing attacks, followed by the Russian Federation (4.5 percent), France (4 percent), and Denmark (4 percent).

Other findings include:

More than 7,300 domains exploited the four financial brands in the study, with 16 percent of the domains registered since September 2008
24 percent of these cybersquatted domains registered since September 2008 used the focus terms—foreclosure, mortgage, refinance and unemployed—translating to a registration rate of more than one cybersquatted domain per day exploiting the focus terms
Domains registered since September 2008 were 50 percent more likely to use the focus terms than domains registered earlier
52 percent of the domains identified in the study did not encrypt customer data, putting consumers’ personal identity information at risk

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