Phishing attacks continue to be a popular way for cybercriminals to go after American consumers' bank accounts through tricking them into giving up their logins and passwords.
Just more than 16,000 individual attacks were recorded worldwide in November 2010, according to RSA, the Security Division of EMC, a 5% increase over the month before.
But there's a new twist. "One of the latest types of phishing attacks to emerge is one that simultaneously targets the brands of multiple organizations through a single attack," the company said in its December report issued today, noting the proliferation of easy-to-use phishing software kits on the black market.
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