The number of brands used in spoofed emails that trick people into visiting malicious Web sites or clicking on malware attachments rose in the second quarter, an indication that phishers are hijacking the good names of businesses from new markets, a report says.
The number of unique brands owned by businesses and other organizations that were
hijacked by phishers reached a record 639 in the quarter ended in June, according to the latest Phishing Activity Trends Report published this week by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The
previous high was 614 in the fourth quarter of 2012.
