The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reported that phishers are the control of the parent co-optation growing Internet infrastructure and use it to target smaller financial institutions?ace. "In general, you paint the survey and recent field reports of a scene of gothic Phishers use crimeware advanced systems to a gr??and m eren?most powerful set of technologies einschlie?Corporate Internet and seemingly destined for the smallest units of command?as identified in the Rule "Said APWG Chairman David Jevan.

Jevan hasThis k?nnte mean that the systems for Bek?attenuation "Phishingdass bige banks have implemented have been successful and the B?sen, in order to move goals easier. It k?nnte mean, the phishers now have enough hardware strive institutions in which the chances are for success in a broad-based spam attack is relatively low and still earn an attractive return on investment. "

APWG members analysts and researchers have reported for the A?Past and the worms and viruses to be used have been adapted by the line between vandalism intramural cracker gangs, to sit quietly co-opted by phishing gangs on the h?more often use Internet servers for phishing attacks against spam-based, host sites to start K?and the stolen data file.
The fruit of this work betrayal never clearer than in the APWG report in January. The survey says that was in APWG in January, it reported 12 845 new e-mails, the APWG Phishing, an increase of 42% over the unique reports for December. "The number of phishing Web sites supporting these attacks rose even more dramatically.

In January 2560, there were unique St?tten reported an increase of 47% compared to December (1740) - more than double the number reported just three months in October (1186) "According to the APWG.

Dan Hubbard, senior director of security and technology research at Websense, Inc. said, "Hackers continue to develop techniques "Phishingund believe that money and an Internet infrastructure Kriminalit?t is a key driver behind these attacks is.
No port 80 hosted sites in H?height of nearly 10 percent of all phishing sites, according to statistics from January. (Port 80 is the h?Asked communication channel for Internet applications;the use of alternative ports is used a phishing tactics to circumvent filters.) "The increase in port 80 hosted sites and the number of sites that host phishing attacks to lead us to believe that still the number of machines which are filled?sive and are used to these attacks is increasing host "According to the APWG.

In the past two months, more concerned for the financial sector, the proliferation of Bankgesch?ften and financial targets. In January, the number of reported kidnappings rose to 64 brands, including nine brands first reported this month - eight of them financial institutions "According to the APWG. This comes after the December report, which held eight of the nine other new phishing attacks this month marks from financial institutions.

"The APWG has been monitoring phishing attacks since the end of 2003 and the identity?t of the main objectives in mind?changed little over a Jahro. Since the end of a?or in the past, however, it became clear that phishers have focused on the financial sector and in it, have turned their attention to the smallest institutions?as;even a state credit union was attacked in the last month "Said APWG Secretary General?r Peter Cassidy.