Driven by a profit motive, phishers are a creative and efficient lot. By analyzing the phishing
that took place in the second half of 2012, we have learned how the phishers perpetrated
their attacks, and what defensive measures are and are not working. Some phishers have
been breaking into Web hosting providers to great effect, a trend we see in the wider
world of cyber-crime.
This report seeks to understand trends and their significance by quantifying the scope of
the global phishing problem. Specifically, this new report examines all the phishing attacks
detected in the second half of 2012 (“2H2012”, 1 July 2012 through 31 December 2012).
The data was collected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and supplemented with data
from several phishing feeds, CNNIC, and private sources. The APWG phishing repository is
the Internet’s most comprehensive archive of phishing and e-mail fraud activity. We are
grateful to CNNIC and the Anti-phishing Alliance of China (APAC) for sharing their data
with us. here to access full report
click here to access full report..........http://docs.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey_2H2012.pdf