Recent rise in Phishing attacks

From: Hubbard, Dan (dhubbard_at_websense.com)
Date: 10/06/04

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    Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:20:58 -0700
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    Starting Sunday afternoon (Oct 5, 04) we are currently seeing a massive
    increase in the amount of phishing sites (more than a 10 times increase
    than our regular load). There is not one particular brand being targeted
    but several. The one piece of commonality is that these almost all are
    being hosted on IP addresses and mostly outside of the US. It appears
    as though some sort of toolkit maybe available and/or a set of tools
    that are utilizing a large bot network for this.

    Does anyone have any evidence or other information to share regarding
    this?

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    Dan Hubbard
    Security & Technology Research
    Websense Security Labs
    http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com

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