LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Fraudsters out phishing stayed busy this fall, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
A total of 178 financial institutions and government agencies were attacked in November, the most ever recorded in one month, the anti-fraud coalition said in a report released Monday.
The APWG noted increased focus on large U.S. banks, credit unions and Middle Eastern and European financial services companies, and on national government tax revenue agencies.
The group also said that the actual number of individual phishing campaigns recorded by anti-fraud networks fell for the second month in a row, from 31,650 in October to 28.074 in November, but said that may be a result of cyber gangs increasingly going after key corporate personnel instead of just consumers.
The complete report is available at http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_report_nov_2007.pdf.
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