PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The phishing apparently was fine this summer.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group just released its authoritative Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of August and says that the total number of unique reports submitted to the group was 25,624, an increase of 10% from July.
The industry coalition also says it detected 32,079 phishing Web sites in August, an increase of more than 2,000 from the month before, and that there were 294 unique variants of phishing-based Trojan keyloggers detected, continuing a four-month upward trend.
Meanwhile, the group says, the average time before a site to be up and running fell to a new low of 3.3 days, apparently as a result of increased vigilance in take-down routines by phishing fighters and because of the fraudsters' own new routine of deploying multiple sites for short durations.
The complete report is at http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_report_august_2007.pdf.
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