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Banks on alert as phishing attacks soar
PrecisionMarketing.co.uk, March 26, 2008 |
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| Phishing attacks on UK banking customers have rocketed by 70 per cent in just over a year, with the first three months of 2008 witnessing the steepest rise in activity. |
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Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
Silicon.com, March 18, 2008 |
| Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA. |
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HSBC and Natwest among the top three phishing targets
ITPro, March 7, 2008 |
| Report by security vendor reveals main brands targeted by phishers, and also shows how criminals are moving on to less well defended institutions |
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Brand-jacking: business battles online scammers
CNN, March 3, 2008 |
| What's in a name? If it's a big brand name, plenty. The top 100 global brands have a combined value of $1.2 trillion, estimates consultancy Interbrand. That's bound to attract online scammers. |
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Phishing Attacks 2007, Over $3 Billion Lost
Technology News Daily, February 27, 2008 |
| Phishing attacks in the United States soared in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending in August 2007, as compared with the 2.3 million who did so the year before. |
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E-scammers trashing reputations
InfoWorld, February 25, 2008 |
| Through tactics like cyber-squatting and phishing, online criminals are hurting the reputations of legitimate businesses as they ply their trade |
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Phishing attacks unleashed on UK banks
ZD Net , February 18, 2008 |
| Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. The attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet, according to a report from security company RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC). |
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300 attacks a day on Irish Internet users
RTE News, February 11, 2008 |
| New research has found that Irish Internet users are attacked online nearly 300 times each day. The research into online security, released by the Department of Communications today to launch its Market Secure campaign, also found that one in three online shoppers have experienced a threat of some kind over the last year. |
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NatWest bank heads phishing league table
Techworld, January 22, 2008 |
| Anti-spam outfit ClearMyMail has published a league table of the UK's most 'phished' brands, with the NatWest bank way out in front as the most targeted name. According to the company, the bank accounted for 41 percent of all spam and fraudulent emails running through its servers, from a top ten made up entirely of financially-based companies. |
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