Over 50 percent of all phishing attacks worldwide in April were
on brands present in the U.S., U.K., Australia and India, followed
by Canada, Brazil and Italy, according to the findings of May 2012
Fraud Report by RSA, The Security Division of EMC. The report also
revealed that India is among top four countries targeted by
phishing attacks by brands.
U.S. nationwide brands saw a 24 percent increase in phishing
attacks in April, as per the report. It also revealed that in
April, only five countries endured more than one percent of
phishing attack volume – with over 90 percent of the entire
volume targeted at the U.K., Canada and the U.S.
As per RSA’s AFCC May 2012 report, Citadel Trojan’s
fourth upgraded version is already available in the market. Citadel
Trojan is based on Zeus Code and it has all the functions going way
beyond any crimeware kit till date. Citadel is the only commercial
malware in the cybercrime arena being aggressively marketed to
criminals and is a crimeware kit to be reckoned with in 2012.
RSA noticed 20 percent increase in the use of Citadel in the Trojan
attacks detected between March–April 2012.
RSA report mentioned that April 2011 also saw 86 percent
increase in the total number of global phishing attacks as compared
to the previous month, with a total of 35,558 unique phishing
attacks identified by RSA globally.