There's good news about phishing: The growth of new attacks has slowed. But that's only because attackers are building more sophisticated traps and using advanced technology to perpetrate online fraud, researchers say.
Last week, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an online fraud watchdog, reported that the number of phishing e-mails it tracked between January and February grew by only 2 percent.
That figure seems to mark a significant lessening of the threat, given that the average growth rate has been 26 percent per month since July 2004. But during the January-February period, phishing attacks also became dramatically more complex, experts said.
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