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Report Shows Substantial Rise in Phishing Attacks in 2008

Mar 26, 2008 8:47 AM PST | Comments: 0
By CircleID Reporter

According to a recent security report, the number of phishing attacks on financial services customers has increased dramatically this year, with fraudsters focusing on three banks whose customers they have judged to be particularly vulnerable.

“Just as phishing seemed to have slipped off the consumer radar, online fraudsters have leapt on the chance to capitalize on this false sense of security and have increased their phishing activity drastically in the past few months,” said Jonathan Robinson, chief operating officer of NetNames.

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