Announcing November Stats
posted by Allison on December 1st, 2006 in Community, PhishTank, Statistics
Wasting no time at all, we added statistics for November 2006 to our stats page today. We also issued a press release about the Tank’s findings.
Highlights include:
- Total number of votes by the PhishTank community: 93,103
- Total number of unique, suspected phishing scams reported: 18,130
- Country hosting the most phishing sites: South Korea
- Percentage of phishing sites hosted in South Korea: 39
- Median time it took for the PhishTank community to verify phishes: 5 hours, 28 minutes
The big change we noticed from last month’s stats was country of host. In October the country hosting the most phishing sites was the United States with 24 percent. In November it was South Korea, with a much higher 39 percent. Don’t interpret this to mean that phishing is a bigger problem in South Korea than in other countries – it doesn’t mean it’s where the target of the phish is and it doensn’t mean it’s where the phisher sent the e-mail from. It just means it’s where the phishing Web site is being hosted.
If there are additional stats you’d like to see, let us know.
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On digg now:
http://digg.com/security/PhishTank_releases_November_Phishing_Stats
Good work guys. When we vote to verify a phish, it would be appreciated that if the link to the next unverified site
was close to the vote buttons, then we would not have to move the mouse so much to get to the next page.
Not a bid deal for desktop users but for us notebook users, it will speed up the progress.
And thank you for doing such a great job. We appreciate it.
A statistics for accuracy of verifiers and submitters would be fun.
Both the highest and the lowest 10.
Wow… great work all around! The dramatic improvement in time to verification is very encouraging, especially in light of the equally dramatic increase in submissions.
A quick note for the editors:
“In October, 1,299 phishes (16% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 8,329 (or 84%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).“
That should be November, of course.