A flood of phishing sites and how to avoid them

This pie chart shows the business categories targeted by phishers and their respective proportion of fake sites, according to PandaLab's latest report.

(Credit: PandaLabs)

You could call it the Web site phishing deluge. Cybercriminals are cranking out fake Web sites branded as eBay, banks, and other financial companies to the tune of tens of thousands every week, according to new research.
During a three-month study of its global malware database, Panda Security found on average 57,000 new Web sites created each week with the aim of exploiting a brand name in order to steal information that can be used to drain peoples' bank accounts.


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