In its "State of Spam And Phishing, March 2011" report, Symantec the United States-based security company states that there has been a 38.56% surge in phishing attacks in February 2011, since online-crooks once again found the prowess that were of phishing kits. Infosecurity-magazine.com reported this dated March 18, 2011.
Reveals Symantec.com, March 16, 2011, spam levels on average rose 8.7% daily from January to February 2011, accounting for 80.65% of the total e-mail during February against 79.55% during January.
Moreover, phishing with respect to unique web-domains and automated toolkits increased considerably. Phishing websites that automated kits crafted rose 50.33%.
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