ARLINGTON, Va. — Internet security specialist Cyveillance Inc. said credit unions and banks continue as targets of phishing and malware attacks.
The suburban Washington company (www.cyveillance.com) said that more than 100 new brands were targeted by phishers in the last three months of 2007, and that about 90% of those were roughly even split between credit unions and banks.
The Internet security firm also noted that a trend that first became evident earlier in the year has continued, as the number of malware attacks outside the United States grew by 30% in the fourth quarter of 2007.
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For the year, Cyveillance said, more than 900 new brands were first-time targets of phishing attacks. That is more than double the number organizations attacked for the first time in 2005 and 2006 combined.
Cyveillance technology continually sweeps the Internet, collecting information from more than 200 million unique domain name servers and 150 million unique Web sites, the company said.
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