[pchelpers] News:Kits help phishing sites proliferate

 By Munir Kotadia
Special to CNET News.com
Published: February 27, 2006, 8:11 AM PST

The number of phishing Web sites grew by about 65 percent in December, 
which security experts say is due to the increasing use of easy-to-use 
"phishing kits."

The Anti-Phishing Working Group's report for December revealed that 
although the number of phishing e-mails fell between November and 
December last year, the number of fraudulent Web sites increased from 
4,630 to 7,197, which is a new record.

Security companies say the increasing number of phishing Web sites can 
be attributed to the easy availability of phishing kits, tools that can 
be used by relatively nontechnical people to create and manage multiple 
phishing sites.

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