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- http://www.infoworld...kyrocket_1.html
May 18, 2004
"...The growing problem also points to increasing interest in the scams by malicious hacking groups and organized crime, Maier said. "We've had confirmation from law enforcement in the U.S. that organized crime is behind some of these scams. We also do work looking at hacker sites, and we can see that hackers and script kiddies are definitely paying attention to this phenomenon and are beginning to work together," he said..."
(The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports over 1,100 unique phishing campaigns for April 2004, an increase of 178% over the number of attacks in March. From February to March, phishing attacks increased by only 43%, particularly targeting financial services and retail. Citibank was targeted by 475 unique phishing attacks in April, with eBay at 221 and PayPal at 135. APWG has evidence suggesting that phishing webpages are traded between phishers in much the same way as spammers trade e-mail addresses. Criminal organizations are using phishing scams as well. Research from Gartner suggests that as many as 3% of phishing attacks are successful, affecting 1.78 million adult users.)
