Worldwide Phishing Attacks May Stem from Few Sources

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Worldwide Phishing Attacks May Stem from Few Sources
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1679953,00.asp

By Dennis Fisher
October 19, 2004

Research from an e-mail security provider suggests that a handful of
people are responsible for the vast majority of the phishing attacks
on the Internet and the perpetrators are using a rotating series of
zombie networks to launch them.

Researchers at CipherTrust Inc. analyzed more than four million
e-mails collected from the company's customers during the first two
weeks of October and found that nearly a third of all of the zombie
machines sending the phishing messages are based in the United States.
That's twice as many as the 16 percent that are found in South Korea.
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