posted by Allison on May 21st, 2007 in PhishTank, Community
And starting today, it is, between Anti-Phishing Working Group and OpenDNS.
This is a big day for us, folks, and for all of you who have worked to make PhishTank the most authoritative source of phishing data on the Web.
Anti-Phishing Working Group is big, and has a member list boasting companies like eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Verisign and Cisco. They’ve been at phish-fighting since 2003 and have made great progress in raising awareness about the seriousness of Internet crime.
We’re young, but growing at lightning speed. The human approach OpenDNS and PhishTank bring to the table is an incredibly important element to combatting the problem.
Anti-Phishing Working Group and OpenDNS make a great team and we’re excited about what we can accomplish together.
[Cross-posted to PhishTank and OpenDNS blogs.]
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posted by John Roberts on May 12th, 2007 in PhishTank, Statistics, PhishTank in the news
Credit card fraud keeps growing on the Net is the headline in the May 11, 2007 version of the International Herald Tribune. PhishTank’s April 2007 statistics earned a mention.
Statistics from Phishtank, an antiphishing network, found that last month alone some 77,709 phishes were sent out, with 19 percent originating in the United States, 15 percent in France, 14 percent in Turkey and 10 percent from South Korea.
“This is a global problem,” said David Ulevitch, the founder of Phishtank, whose data is now being used by Yahoo to help make the Internet safer.
Note: the printer-friendly version has everything on one page. The PhishTank reference is page 2 of the article, otherwise.
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posted by Allison on May 1st, 2007 in PhishTank, Statistics
It’s the first of the month again and you know what that means….
PhishTank April statistics were posted on the Web site today and the differences between April and previous months are hard not to notice. PhishTank caught 77,709 unique phishes last month and tallied a grand total of 243,500 votes. That’s impressive!
You might notice, too, that new members “antiphishing” and “PhishReporter” came in No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the Top Submitters list. Both members represent organizations that did more than their share of submitting in April. The longer median time to verify can be attributed simply to a much greater pool of phishes to verify.
If you’re interested, check out the press release here. Keep it up, phish fighters!
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