BEDFORD, Mass. — Credit unions continued to be an apple in the eye of phishing fraudsters in November, according to the latest monthly online fraud report from RSA Security.
Nationwide banks were the target of 44% of recorded phishing attacks in November, while credit unions were the target of 33% and regional banks received 22% of the phishing attacks on U.S. financial institutions, RSA Security said this week.
The company says there were 159 separate brands attacked, a slight increase in November from the month before, and that 60% of global banking phishing attacks originated in the United States, with 11% in China and 8% in Germany.
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RSA Security bases its report on records from its Anti-Fraud Command Center, which is used by hundreds of financial institutions and other e-commerce participants to detect and shut down phishing, pharming and Trojan attacks from around the world.
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