Monday, May 28, 2012:
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced the findings of its May 2012 Fraud Report, ranking India amongst top four countries targeted by phishing attacks by brands. 50 percent of all phishing attacks worldwide in April were on brands present in US, UK, Australia and India.
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April 2011 also saw 86 percent increase in the total number of global phishing attacks as compared to the previous month, with a total of 35,558 unique phishing attacks identified by RSA globally.
As per RSA’s AFCC May 2012 report, Citadel Trojan’s fourth upgraded version is already available in the market. Citadel Trojan is based on Zeus Code and it has all the functions going way beyond any crimeware kit till date. Citadel is the only commercial malware in the cybercrime arena being aggressively marketed to criminals and is a crimeware kit to be reckoned with in 2012. RSA noticed 20 percent increase in the use of Citadel in the Trojan attacks detected between March – April 2012.
Other highlights in the report are:
· As of May, 2012, Brands in the U.S., UK, Australia and India were targeted by almost 50 percent of phishing attacks in April, followed by Canada, Brazil and Italy
· U.S. nationwide brands saw a 24 percent increase in phishing attacks in April
· In April, only five countries endured more than one percent of phishing attack volume – with over 90 percent of the entire volume targeted at the UK, Canada and the U.S.
About the Anti-Fraud Command Center:
The Anti-Fraud Command Center is a 24x7 war-room that detects, tracks, blocks and shuts down phishing, pharming and Trojan attacks perpetrated by online fraudsters. An effective countermeasure against online fraud, RSA FraudAction has shut down more than 160,000 illicit web sites across 140 countries to date, protecting more than 320 organizations. Its fraud analysts shut down websites hosting online attacks, deploy countermeasures, and conduct extensive forensic work to help catch fraudsters and prevent future threats – significantly reducing the average lifetime of an online attack.
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