Regional banks continued to command the attention of phishing fraudsters in February, according to RSA, the security division of EMC.
RSA said in its just-issued March report that regional banks continued to account for the majority of attacks on American financial institutions-60% in February-while 28% of the attacks were attempts to gain access to accounts at nationwide banks.
Credit unions were the focus of 14% of the attacks on financial institutions in January, down sharply from 38% of the attacks in February 2009, according to the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center, which provides detection and shutdown services against malware attacks on more than 300 organizations in 140 countries.
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Hijacked Web sites, especially of social networks, photo-sharing and Web-based software, continued to be the most popular avenue of attack, accounting for 70% of the 18,503 worldwide phishing attacks recorded in February, RSA said.
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