Paypal Is The Most Phished Brands Of 2010

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PayPal which claims to be the safest way to send money and make online payment across the world is still the most phished brands of 2010 so far. According to German security vendor Avira, PayPal was the target of over 50% of phishing attacks all through February. Despite a major decline over January being pragmatic, PayPal is yet the most heavily phished brand.

Avira’s phishing statistics for February exposed that 52.92% of the entire number of unique phishing URLs were registered last month subterfuge PayPal-associated services. This represents a difference of 31.03% over January, when the company liable for 61.89% of such links.

While on the top five phishing brands of 2010 so far are eBay with (9.93%), Facebook (7.37%), HSBC Bank (6.33%) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (6.22%). “The big ‘winner’ is, however, Ebay, which started to be used again in phishing attacks. Remember that in January it was the biggest ‘loser’ and now it gained about 26% landing on the second place,” Sorin Mustaca, Avira’s manager of international software development, stated.

According to PhishTank’s statistics, the most notable increase in attacks over January was registered by brands like Visa (68.50%), due to the Winter Olympics, Facebook (59.54%), due to new activity from the Koobface worm, and the IRS (41.91%), caused by tax-evasion scams. And the company also ranks PayPal, IRS, Facebook, HSBC and Bank of America as the top five targeted brands for last month.