Phishing site numbers soar in 2006
Few will be surprised at new figures from Netcraft showing the number of phishing URLs to have soared in 2006. But there is a alarming sting in this tail -- almost half the total came in a single month, December.
According to the company, which monitors the incidence of phishing sites through its browser toolbar, the total number of sites rose from 41,000 in 2005 to 609,000 in 2006. Of this, a staggering 277,000 unique URLs were detected in December alone, with 457,000 cumulatively in the last three months of the year.
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