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What is Phishing and Pharming?
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning.

 
Crimeware Mutations Shatter Records in December
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Variants Explode to New Record, Jumping 43% in One Month

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Crimeware-dropping URLs at 4th Highest Level Recorded

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News and Events:

  • 2007 June 17-22 - 19th Annual FIRST Conference
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    Private Lives and Corporate Risk
    in Seville, Spain, June 17-22, 2007. Sponsored by FIRST, this conference brings together security professionals from the global incident response community who are seeking answers to a raft of questions like those above.
     
  • 04-Feb-07: APWG Releases December Phishing Trends Report
    The APWG's combined report, covering phishing activity during December 2006 is available here: APWG Phishing Trends Activity Report for December 2006 .
     
  • 27-Dec-06: Nov 2006 Korea Phishing Activity Trends Report
    Korea Information Security Agency

    Korea Phishing Activity Trends Report
    Previous reports can be found here.
     
  • 07-Dec-06: APWG Releases Combined September-October Phishing Trends Report
    The APWG's combined report, covering September and October 2006 is available here: APWG Phishing Trends Activity Report for September and October 2006 .
     
  • 22-Nov-06: APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy presents at European Commission High Level Conference on 'Maintaining the Integrity of Identities and Payments.'

  • 22-Nov-06: DOJ & PSEPC Release Joint Phishing Report
    The US Justice Department and the Ministry on Public Safety and
    Emergency Preparedness Canada jointly release this report on phishing
     
  • 20-Nov-06: ACCC releases updated SCAMwatch site
    SCAMwatch is a website run by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC). The aim of SCAMwatch is to provide information to consumers and small business about how to recognise, avoid and report scams. Scams that are reported to SCAMwatch will be analysed by the ACCC.
     
  • 17-Nov-06: Authentication Summit 2007
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    Authentication Summit 2007 is a two-day intensive program focused on online authentication, identity and reputation. Summit 2007 builds upon the success of the past two Summits, with several enhancements including expanding the event to 2 full days, and three tracks, highlighting best practices in email, Web and domain authentication.
     
  • 06-Nov-06: FBI Nabs large group of internet fraudsters
     
  • 16-Oct-06: APWG Releases the Crimeware Landscape Report
    The APWG in coordination with the US Department of Homeland Security releases its Crimeware Landscape Report. This document tries to help executives grasp just what crimeware is, how it works, and how prevalent it is.
     
  • 12-Oct-06: ITU/MII meeting in Zhengzhou, China
     Peter Cassidy, APWG Secretary-General, addresses the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)/Ministry of Information Industry (MII) meeting in Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
     
  • 10-Oct-06: FIRST Technical Colloquium, Brazil
    Pat Cain, APWG Resident Research Fellow, addresses the 2006 FIRST Technical Colloquium in Rio de Janeiro, BR
     
  • 18-Jul-06: FDIC Releases New Rules on ID Theft
    Rules Proposed on Identity Theft Red Flags and Notices of Address Discrepancy
      
  • 11-May-06: FTC unveils ID theft education campaign
    Federal Trade Commission launches "Avoid ID Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend", a campaign to advise consumers on techniques to neutralize identity theft.

    The free kit is available here: www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
     
  • 03-May-06: New CyberCrime Blog Site available
    Dipping Through Geometries
    Jonathan Rusch, longtime APWG Member and defender of good has a new blog site. The APWG places high merit on Jonathan's insight and experience. We wish him well on this new endeavor.

Consumer Advice on Phishing
Check out the advice we've compiled for consumers on phishing. Visit the Resources pages for more information:

  • How to Avoid Phishing Scams
  • What To Do If You've Given Out Your Personal Financial Information

Are you a Phishing Victim?
If you are willing to talk about your experience to help educate and warn others, please let us know at info@antiphishing.org.

 

 
     
     








 
 
  Anti-Phishing Working Group
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is the global pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on eliminating the fraud and identity theft that result from phishing, pharming and email spoofing of all types.

APWG Members
- 2600+ members
- 1600+ companies & agencies worldwide
- 8 of the top 10 US banks
- 4 of the top 5 US ISPs
- Hundreds of technology vendors
- National & provincial law enforcement worldwide

APWG Working Groups
- Best Practices
- Education
- Future Threat Models & Forensics
- Phishing Data Repository
- Sizing the Problem
- Solution Evaluation & Deployment Education
- Working with Law Enforcement and Legislatures

 
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