Intelligence from our Anti-Fraud Command Center
Each month the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center issues the RSA Online Fraud Report that includes a monthly highlight as well as over a half dozen charts with analyses featuring phishing trends such as top ten countries attacked, most used attacked vectors, and other data from the Center’s global phishing repository.
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.
We invite you to review the reports to keep up with the latest threats. You are welcome to leverage the information for your own documents and other resources. RSA requests that any specific data or content be attributed to the "RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center" as the source.
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RSA Online Fraud Report
This month’s highlight takes a look at phishing trends throughout 2011 and features some very interesting statistics. Overall, in 2011, global phishing attacks increased 37 percent.
RSA Online Fraud Report
November saw DNS Poisoning, aka Pharming, making the headlines on more than one
occasion: To name a few, the online threat showcased in the high-profile hijacking of several Brazilian ISPs’ DNS servers; an incident that resulted in millions of Brazilian users being infected with a banking Trojan.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's report takes a look at how the phishing threat started and the ways in which it has evolved with attacks becoming more sophisticated and targeted over time.
RSA Online Fraud Report
As of October 1, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 484,752 attacks in 185 countries. This month, we officially hit a major milestone of 500,000 phishing attacks shut down!
RSA Online Fraud Report
August marked an all-time high for the number of phishing attacks identified in a single month.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's report highlights takes you from identification to shutdown of a man-in-the-browser attack.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's highlight discusses social engineering and its important role in many of today's common cyber attacks.
RSA Online Fraud Report
May 2011 set a new record for the most unique attacks identified by RSA in a single month – a total of 23,097 phishing attacks. This represents a 33 percent increase in the number of global phishing attacks since last month.
RSA Online Fraud Report
As of May 1, 2011, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 410,279 online attacks in 184 countries.
In April, RSA identified 17,376 phishing attacks, a number almost identical to those reported in March. However, the number of brands attacked dropped by 12%, signifying that the same number of attacks were targeted at a narrower set of brands in April.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's highlight focuses on online credit card shops being developed by fraudsters to sell stolen credentials.
RSA Online Fraud Report
As of March 1, 2011, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 389,438 online attacks in 183 countries.
In February, RSA identified 18,079 phishing attacks, an 11% increase from January. This is the first time in nearly a year that the number of phishing attacks we identified topped the 18,000 mark.
For more than a year now, the U.S., UK and South Africa have been the three countries targeted most by mass phishing campaigns.
RSA Online Fraud Report
RSA has shut down 381,185 online attacks since February 1, 2011.
*Note: We have changed the naming conventions for the Monthly Online Fraud Reports to reflect the month in which the reports are published
