Sunday, November 25, 2007

Malware attacks on websites grew 30% in third quarter

Phishers continue to focus heavily on financial institutions such as credit unions and banks, which represented 93% of all phishing attacks during third quarter, according to a new online fraud report. A significant shift in the nature of online attacks was reported, with malware-based attacks jumping 30% to more than three million attacks during third quarter, according to Cyveillance's latest "Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report.

http://www.cuna.org/newsnow/07/system110907-5.html?ref=hed
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