75% of All Phishing E-Mail Target PayPal and eBay Users

Iria · Aug 2, 2006, 05:46 AM

Source: HardwareZone
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IT security firm Sophos has revealed that more than 75% of all phishing e-mail messages are targeting users of PayPal or eBay. Typically, these phishing e-mail point recipients to a bogus website which looks like the real PayPal or eBay site, but is actually designed to steal usernames and passwords.

Experts at SophosLabs, the company's global network of threat analysis centers, scanned all phishing e-mail messages received during 2006 to reveal that 54.3% were attempting to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most common targets, at 20.9%, were users of the eBay online auction service.

Aug 2, 2006, 05:46 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	75% of All Phishing E-Mail Target PayPal and eBay Users Source: HardwareZone __________ IT security firm Sophos has revealed that more than 75% of all phishing e-mail messages are targeting users of PayPal or eBay. Typically, these phishing e-mail point recipients to a bogus website which looks like the real PayPal or eBay site, but is actually designed to steal usernames and passwords. Experts at SophosLabs, the company's global network of threat analysis centers, scanned all phishing e-mail messages received during 2006 to reveal that 54.3% were attempting to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most common targets, at 20.9%, were users of the eBay online auction service.