PhishTank faster in March

posted by John Roberts on April 4th, 2007 in PhishTank, Statistics

Everyone in the PhishTank community should enjoy the March 2007 statistics, in case you didn’t catch the press release. The median time to verify was down to a shade over 6 hours, from more than 15 hours in February. Pretty speedy!

Click the map for a larger version. The United States widened its “lead” in March as the country hosting the most phishes.

Two notes:

• The spike in verifications on March 9th represents the “unsticking” of a backlogged process, so those verifications actually happened across March 7-9.
• Folks were slowed a bit in both submitting and verifying for a few days due to a domain glitch on March 24.

 

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4 Responses

1. Mads Dam

   It’s interesting to see the global distribution of phishes.
   But it would also be nice to see the development;
   How about making an animated chart as a supplement..?

   — posted by Mads Dam on April 5th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

2. Ilgaz

   It would be lots more faster if people stops submitting mortgage, scam and even software links as “phish”.

   I know there is a karma system here but it still effects the verify system.

   I think a /ignore system could be needed in future.

   — posted by Ilgaz on April 6th, 2007 at 9:28 am

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   — posted by incidents.co.za » Blog Archive » phishtank and botnet on April 7th, 2007 at 7:17 am

4. Daniel Aleksandersen

   I am surprised to see that most phishing comes from the USA. I though Russia and developing countries where the origin of most phising attempts.

   Could this data be inaccurate because USA originated phising attempts get verified more easily?

   — posted by Daniel Aleksandersen on April 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pm

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