The MarkMonitor Fraud Intelligence Report for the second quarter of 2011 is now available. Phish attack volume declined 3% from the previous quarter to 97,241 attacks. The number of targeted organizations also decreased 3% from the first quarter to 498. more»
Spam levels have declined dramatically since the March 16 takedown of Rustock, the world's largest botnet, but how long will this victory last? Rustock was responsible for sending almost half of all global spam and up to 44 billion spam emails per day... more»
MarkMonitor has annonuced that it will be sharing a new, monthly Fraud Intelligence Report with customers and other interested parties. The goal of the report is to provide timely analysis of developing trends and new threats in the fraud landscape. The Fraud Intelligence Report will complement the current MarkMonitor analysis as provided in the semi-annual Brandjacking Index® reports and customer reports. more»
On May 11, as part of a panel discussion entitled, "Building & Protecting Core Assets - Extracting Value from Intellectual Property", MarkMonitor's CMO, Frederick Felman, will discuss controlling intellectual property assets in the global marketplace, what role the Internet plays on the value of intellectual property and the positive and negative effects the Internet poses for brand owners as they work to build and protect their brands. more»
MarkMonitor recently investigated to what extent popular product searches led to websites offering counterfeit and pirated goods via paid search ads. The research examined 20 of the top 1,000 product-related searches in 2008 and focused on paid search ads across the three major search engines -- Google, Yahoo! and Bing. more»
For retailers and consumers, Cyber Monday marked the beginning of the online holiday shopping season. For cybercriminals, however, it marked the opening of their winter phishing season. Here at MarkMonitor, we are currently seeing an uptick in cybercriminal activity targeting online retailers' brands. more»
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its Global Phishing trends study for the first half of 2009 and .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR), was highlighted for its leadership in significantly reducing online fraud. more»
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the company's latest Brandjacking Index that studies how fraudsters are abusing major financial brand names and topical subjects like refinancing or unemployment to lure unsuspecting consumers to questionable websites. more»
Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that a new Global Phishing Survey released by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) reveals that the .INFO domain is the generic top-level Internet domain (gTLD) safest from phishing attacks. more»
MarkMonitor has announced AntiFraud Solutions, offering patented technology to enable brand owners to prevent, detect and respond to phishing and malware attacks. MarkMonitor AntiFraud Solutions leverage the extensive MarkMonitor network of relationships and technology designed to thwart phishing attacks in order to combat the rapidly expanding problem of malware targeting brands.
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