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Community against Phishers |
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
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The Community side Phishtank published a first phishing statistics for the month Octobers. Phishtank collects messages from users over phishing server and attempted frauds. The data flow among other things into OpenDNS, a service like the official root name servers upstream filters work, however the recognized name area not manipulated. The OpenDNS servers try to recognize the inquiry after well-known phishing servers and reroute OpenDNS users on warning sides.
Altogether 7061 messages were received with Phishtank in October, about which 3678 proved as correct referring to fraud sides. When evaluating an announced page the Community members of Phishtank votierten altogether 93.531-mal. Only 878-mal showed up that a phishing suspicion was unjustified. With the remaining 2505 messages no evaluation was possible, since the pertinent sides disappeared too fast from the net. The operators of Phishtank nevertheless estimate the evaluation of the Community as fast: On average it took 18 minutes up to the evaluation whether a page is phishing or not.
The statistics contains also Top Ten lists to the URLs used by the cheats, which servers and which goals used most frequently occurred. In the international comparison customers of the people banks at place five of the most frequent phishing goals created it. On the first places are as expected eBay and PayPal. Most phishing servers stand according to statistics in the USA and South Korea. To a similar result among other things also Symantec came in its half-yearly Internet Threat report.
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