March 8, 2010
Vivian Yeo
ZDNet Asia

While financial institutions still top the phishing radar, cybercriminals are now moving beyond to top brands, with one of the recent victims being a hardware manufacturer, according to the latest Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) report.
Released Sunday, the APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report for the fourth quarter of 2009 revealed that 356 brands were hijacked in October, an increase of 4.4 percent over the previous high of 341 recorded last August. The study was compiled using data from APWG and its members MarkMonitor, Websense and Panda Security.

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