Phishing Web Site Report

Did you know that there are at least 55,643 phishing web sites? That's what the Anti-Phishing Work Group is reporting for the month of April 2007. That's a big jump from previous months; much of that jump is due to phishers using "URL Multiplication" techniques. If you put many web servers on a box, you can reference all of those domains as 123.badphishersite.com or www.badphishersite.com/1234 . The phisher can use that technique, if they are paying attention, to determine which mailing campaign is more effective at driving traffic to the phishing site.

You'll find the report from the Anti-Phishing Work Group here: http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_report_april_2007.pdf . Interesting reading.

I got that link from one of the blogs at McAfee, which is on my daily reading list. You'll find that blog entry here: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/06/11/phishers-like-url-multiplying-techniques/ .

Be careful out there!