Friday, March 4, 2011

Top 10 Phishing Website in 2010.

Link to us: http://snipurl.com/toptenphished

TopTenPhished

1. PayPal — 45.9%1.
2. Facebook — 5.3%2.
3. HSBC Group — 4.1%3.
4. World of Warcraft — 3.2%4.
5. Internal Revenue Service — 3%5.
6. Bradesco — 1.9%6.
7. Orkut — 1.7%7.
8. Sulake Corporation — 1.5 %8.
9. Steam — 1.2%9.
10. Tibia — 1%10.

In OpenDNS annual report for 2010, the most frequently phished website in every month of 2010 was Paypal, which is 9 times more than the second popular phisher target, Facebook (5.3% fake sites). Five of the top ten phished website (Facebook, World of Warcraft, Sulake Corporation, Steam and Tibia are associated with social and online games.



References
Help Net Security [Online], Retrieved on 10 March 2011.
URL: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10487

1 comment:

  1. As expected PayPal will be top , but wow !
    World of Worldcraft on top4 phished website?
    What surprise is , MayBank2You not in the list?
    If i recall , i always get spam mail for MayBank2You , ask for update status, which very obvious is a phishing since i dun have maybank accound xD

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