Kits help phishing sites proliferate | Tech News on ZDNet
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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