Phishing attacks fall sharply in January-February

Red Box (managed security company) recently conducted a study showing that phishing attacks fell dramatically from the 55th 59% in January 2010 to 17. 86% during February 2010. The company shows the number of virus attacks. Red box that states in Brazil have been more productive in virus attacks in recent months. But now there is an 8th 87% was generated from the virus, allowing it to 3rd place behind the USA and Korea. The virus originated in the United States has declined during January-February 2010, from 15th 7% to 9. 31%. However, the country remains high on the lists of latest generation viruses. Viruses from the United Kingdom has declined 0. 37%. However, the country has risen to higher office top ten lists and is currently No. 5 in the production of the virus. Another country that experienced decreased virus Korea. , The 2nd 25%. Explains why the virus has decreased, security researchers said it was normal for phishing attacks decreased after the peak in July But by 2010 the trend was slow, because phishing remains high throughout January 2010. This shows that phishers can change their strategies. Conventionally, the big event, including Valentine’s Day and Christmas, been abused, with suppliers of related web malware send links via email. But today the attacks are carried out through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Criminals use the kind of interactions that occur in these networks. People are very keen to share the latest celebrity news and wish to keep abreast of developments in the story. Therefore, an appropriate atmosphere created for the spread of malicious code. Simon Heron, Web Security Analyst at Network Box, said that phishing attacks, which sank after Christmas has taken the time to do it this year (2010). The latest wave of phishing attacks and spam via Twitter shows that the creators of malicious code constantly looking for new ways to defraud the e-mail recipients. They take impressions of friends or for the use of the latest news, something to get Internet users to click on malicious links, depending on the red box, the 1 March 2010.