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APWG Report: More than One Third of Web Host Victims Repeatedly Exploited By Cybercrime Gangs – Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is reporting this week that more than one-third of respondents to a new Web Vulnerabilities Survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …
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APWG eCrime Report: Classified Ads Sector Breaks Out in Q2 2010 As a Rapidly Expanding Phishing Vector – PR Inside

The online classified advertisement services sector has been increasingly exploited as a phishing attack vector by ecrime gangs, a trend confirmed by the growth of attacks abusing classified companies in the first half of 2010, accounting for 6.6 percent …
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APWG Report Finds a Single Electronic Crime Syndicate … – Forbes

BusinessWire – A single electronic crime syndicate employing advanced malware was responsible for two-thirds of all the phishing attacks detected in the second half of 2009 — and was responsible for the overall increase in phishing attacks recorded …
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