In July 2010-End, about 20 000 cases of phishing APAC

According to the Asia-Pacific Alliance China’s Anti-Phishing, for the period ending in July 2010, there were 19 817 incidents related to phishing sites reported that, with e-commerce sites, more false. Furthermore, the alliance said it was about 19 700 reports. APAC provides that the total number of phishing Web sites complain about the months of January to July 2010 was two times or more than throughout 2009. In various e-commerce sites were promoted more and more in the Spring Festival, which leads to an increase in online shopping, there was an increased incidence of phishing. Tencent QQ. com, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China website and Taobao. com online sites included three who replaced the highest number of cases of phishing, which represents over 90% of all complaints. In addition, more than 4000 fake “Taobao” sites were discovered, and in January-July 2010. Consequently, it becomes clear that the web pages related to electronic commerce represented Taobao have become targets phishers most favorite. In addition, revealed the China Internet Information Security Report that APAC was published in March 2010 as in 2009, approximately 90% of the population in China are faced mainly by phishing Web sites and e-mail, instant messaging. The calculation of the loss incurred on the basis of about 88 million active online buyers, the figure was an average loss of 86th 5 Yuan / person. Furthermore, the report finds, as phishing sites, the Chinese have lost confidence in the Internet. Consequently, the positive growth of the Chinese Internet, is complicated. And in the context of phishing sites, said the alliance after receiving complaints, we expect these sites for analysis of professional public services. When such sites are identified as phishing sites would notify its APAC suppliers for approval of domain names and requesting termination of their operations and DNS. In the case of registrants of domain names was anything suspicious about the decision would be appealed accepted by the Secretariat of the Alliance. Furthermore, in the case of phishing sites “engaged in fraud allegations crime reported to the proper address of the public security organs in their activities on the Internet.