Intelligence from our Anti-Fraud Command Center
Each month the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center issues the RSA Online Fraud Report that includes a monthly highlight as well as over a half dozen charts with analyses featuring phishing trends such as top ten countries attacked, most used attacked vectors, and other data from the Center’s global phishing repository.
The Anti-Fraud Command Center is a 24x7 war-room that detects, tracks, blocks and shuts down phishing, pharming and Trojan attacks perpetrated by online fraudsters. An effective countermeasure against online fraud, RSA FraudAction has shut down more than 160,000 illicit web sites across 140 countries to date, protecting more than 320 organizations. Its fraud analysts shut down websites hosting online attacks, deploy countermeasures, and conduct extensive forensic work to help catch fraudsters and prevent future threats – significantly reducing the average lifetime of an online attack.
We invite you to review the reports to keep up with the latest threats. You are welcome to leverage the information for your own documents and other resources. RSA requests that any specific data or content be attributed to the "RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center" as the source.
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RSA Online Fraud Report
Phishing attacks decreased 17% in August with 49,488 attacks identified by RSA. To date, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 721,165 cyber attacks.
RSA Online Fraud Report
Phishing attacks in July increased 14% from June, marking yet another high of 59,406 attacks in a single month.
RSA Online Fraud Report
Phishing increased considerably in June - marking a 37% rise with over 50,000 phishing attacks identified by RSA.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's report looks at a series of ransomware campaigns and ransomware Trojan attack waves - specifically, a new variant that holds infected PCs hostage until their owners make a €100 payment to the botmaster.
RSA Online Fraud Report
Phishing attacks increased 86 percent in April with 35,558 attacks identified by RSA. As of May 1, 2012, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 587,804 phishing attacks in 188 countries.
RSA Online Fraud Report
March followed with another nine percent drop with 19,141 unique phishing attacks identified by RSA in March. When compared year over year, March 2012 saw a nine percent increase from the phishing volume in March 2011.
RSA Online Fraud Report
While 2012 kicked off with an increase of over 40 percent in global phishing attacks, February marked a 30 percent drop – with only 21,030 phishing attacks detected.
RSA Online Fraud Report
In this month’s highlight, we shed light on one of the latest Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS)offerings to be purveyed in the criminal underground – a new release of the “Darkness”,aka “Optima,” DDoS bot crimeware; a commercially-available toolkit that not only allowsfraudsters to launch DDoS attacks at a target of their choice.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month’s highlight takes a look at phishing trends throughout 2011 and features some very interesting statistics. Overall, in 2011, global phishing attacks increased 37 percent.
RSA Online Fraud Report
November saw DNS Poisoning, aka Pharming, making the headlines on more than one
occasion: To name a few, the online threat showcased in the high-profile hijacking of several Brazilian ISPs’ DNS servers; an incident that resulted in millions of Brazilian users being infected with a banking Trojan.
RSA Online Fraud Report
This month's report takes a look at how the phishing threat started and the ways in which it has evolved with attacks becoming more sophisticated and targeted over time.
RSA Online Fraud Report
As of October 1, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 484,752 attacks in 185 countries. This month, we officially hit a major milestone of 500,000 phishing attacks shut down!
*Note: We have changed the naming conventions for the Monthly Online Fraud Reports to reflect the month in which the reports are published
