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Background  

What is Phishing and Pharming
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning.

Phishing Email Reports and Phishing Site Trends for June 2007
The total number of unique phishing email reports in June 2007 was 28,888, an increase of over 5,000 reports from the previous month. The number of unique phishing websites detected was 31,709 in June 2007, a decrease of nearly 6,000 from the month of May.

Brands & Legitimate Entities Hijacked By Email Phishing Attacks in June 2007
June 2007 saw a drop in hijacked brands to 146. The experts note that there is a continuing trend for banks and credit unions to be targets and that they are seeing more brokerages being phished.

Most Targeted Industry Sectors in June 2007
Financial Services continue to be the most targeted industry sector at 95.2% of all attacks currently. The experts note that more government agencies, such as US and UK tax authorities, are being phished along with more social networking websites.

Web Phishing Attack Trends in June 2007
Countries Hosting Phishing Sites: United States remain on the top of the list for countries hosting phishing websites with 31.95%. The rest of the top 10 breakdown is as follows: Republic of Korea 10%, Poland 6.88%, Russia 6.55%, Bangladesh 4.03%, India 2.84%, Germany 2.56%, France 2.057%, Romania 1.75%.

 

Product Information  

PhishingPro is a total anti-phishing solution that protects people from Internet fraud.

Using social engineering methods, hackers steal data such IDs and passwords from Internet users. Hackers create and e-mail counterfeit websites posing at legitimate companies to trick users into submitting sensitive information.
PhishingPro offers the most comprehensive protection against the latest phishing attacks. When a customer visits a website, PhishingPro immediately analyzes it to determine whether it is legitimate or fraudulent. PhishingPro then alerts users with the results with a color in the address bar to indicate the safety level of that site.


As a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group(APWG), Softforum has access
to the latest phishing information and develops the most advanced countermeasures accordingly.

Benefits

  • Protects users from all kinds of the latest phishing attacks.
  • Provides users with greater reassurance about the site verifying a site¡¯s legitimacy by the whitelist service rather than simply blocks phishing attacks using blacklist database
  • Provides users with the latest information about phishing through collaborating with APWG (the Anti-Phishing Working Group)


PhishingPro Functions

1. Blocks 3rd-Generation Phishing Attacks

  • Analyzes and blocks attacks through pattern recognition of bulletin boards or e-mails with the Content Verification Engine (CVE).
  • Blocks attacks passing through the 3rd-party server.
  • Monitors and prevents system manipulation such as host file and proxy configurations.





2. Whitelist for Anti-Phishing

In addition to the blacklist, PhishingPro uses a whitelist database to block phishing. If the site appears on the whitelist, it is safe; the company¡¯s logo will appear and the address bar will be highlighted in green.



3. Website Location and Information

PhishingPro displays a flag icon to show where the website server is located as well as other information.


4. Address Bar Color Code

There are 4 Address Bar Colors: Green, Red, Yellow and White. The color indicates the safety level of the website.



5. No side effects in the PC environment

  • Minimal file size when downloading: 500K Bytes
  • Disk consumption after installation: 1M Byte
  • Average CPU occupancy: 0.1%
  • Memory usage: 6M Bytes
  • When the host file is manipulated, PhishingPro recognizes the change while Internet explorer is operating.
  • Quick and easy installation and removal.

More Information  

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