Less than a handful of zombie network operators are responsible for all the phishing attacks in the world, according to CipherTrust, an Atlanta-based message security firm. In an analysis of its global customers’ e-mail traffic patterns during the first two weeks of this month, CipherTrust researchers found that less than one percent of all e-mail contained phishing attacks. Those attacks are launched daily by a rotating set of networks, each consisting of 1000 zombie computers.
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Five Zombies Do All the World’s Phishing
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 21, 2004 07:39 AMLess than a handful of zombie network operators are responsible for all the phishing attacks in the world, according to CipherTrust, an Atlanta-based message security firm. In an analysis of its global customers’ e-mail traffic patterns during the first two weeks of this month, CipherTrust researchers found that less than one percent of all e-mail contained phishing attacks. Those attacks are launched daily by a rotating set of networks, each consisting of 1000 zombie computers.