Phishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a
report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or “spoofed,” e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need for sender authentication in all e-mail in order to limit both spam and phishing. “If you can slow down the volume of spam, you can slow down the number of successful hits that phishing attacks make,” the group’s Peter Cassidy told TechNewsWorld.
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Phishers Dangle More Hooks in June
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 5, 2004 08:30 AMPhishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a
report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or “spoofed,” e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need for sender authentication in all e-mail in order to limit both spam and phishing. “If you can slow down the volume of spam, you can slow down the number of successful hits that phishing attacks make,” the group’s Peter Cassidy told TechNewsWorld.