Facebook Phishing increases, making the other makes of phishing attacks

Security researchers at a German provider of antivirus software “Avira caution” that the number of phishing attacks against Facebook users increased by almost 64% in July 2010, which makes the location of the second volume of phishing attacks. According to statistics Avira, even against PayPal phishing activity showed a significant reduction of 37. 30% compared with June 2010, e-commerce site is the brand of phishing attacks on the network with the 65th 45% of these attacks. The security company said that the 10 names remained unchanged compared with June 2010, but increased the number of phishing attacks. In the third with four. 04% points, Fashion World of Warcraft a marked increase of 40. 58% for phishing attacks. Phishing activity against HDFC bank fell 36th 42% in July. Other positions were filled up Tibia Guilds first 58%, Craigslist (first 11%), Halifax (0th 94%) and Bank of America (0th 90%). Sorin Mustaca, International Software Development Manager at Avira, said that because of the holiday season, many people began to buy games and spent more time on social media sites. It was therefore natural that the attacks on these sites would Softpedia News August 20, 2010. It is worth mentioning that Tibia guilds (a free Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG)) developed by a German company called “CipSoft GmbH became a new entry in the list and took the place of the IRS. Avira also lists the top-level domains most consumed (Top Level Domain) in July 2010. list of top-level domains were almost the same as in June 2010 although there were some variations in the top five. The big concern was it. “From” reached a sixth field for this month and increased by five positions in June. Although the proportion of second 62% is not enough, there would be a fluctuation in general. Com him stood on top of the top-level domains most consumed to 52. 58% of phishing and 45th 02% of malware infection. It was followed by. org ,. network, IP addresses, etc.