Oct 1, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - OpenDNS, provider of the world's leading Internet navigation and security services that make networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced September 2010 statistics for PhishTank.com, the free community Web site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data. During the month of September, the PhishTank community voted nearly 65,000 times on almost 16,500 suspected phishes.
Included among the top most spoofed brands this month is PayPal, with more than 9,000 valid phishes. Other frequently spoofed brands include banking sites HSBC and Bradesco, gaming sites World of Warcraft, Zynga and Tibia and social networking site Facebook. This September is the first month in which Zynga has appeared on PhishTank’s top ten most frequently phished brands.
OpenDNS is the world's largest, fastest-growing DNS service. PhishTank is the only consumer-friendly, anti-phishing effort that publicly shares timely phishing data.
Highlights from the September 2010 PhishTank statistics include:
Total number of votes by the PhishTank community: 64,660
Total number of unique, suspected phishing scams reported: 14,679
Country hosting the most phishing sites: United States
Percentage of phishing sites hosted in United States: 50
Median time it took for the PhishTank community to verify phishes: 4 hours, 55 minutes
For more detailed information about PhishTank's September statistics, including the full list of most spoofed brands, please visit: http://www.phishtank.com/stats/2010/09/
About PhishTank
PhishTank is operated by OpenDNS and is the first and only effort of its kind. Launched in October 2006 to coincide with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the site employs a sophisticated voting system that requires the community to vote "phish" or "not phish," reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data. PhishTank makes all phishing data it accumulates public and available via programmable APIs, which allow other software developers to incorporate the anti-phishing data into their tools. The open access is intended to encourage the sharing of information and increase the chance of eliminating phishing all together. For more information about PhishTank, please visit: http://www.phishtank.com
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS is the world's leading provider of Internet navigation and security services that make networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Through DNS resolution, cloud-based Web content filtering and security services, OpenDNS empowers millions of households, schools and businesses to control how users navigate the Internet on their network, while dramatically increasing the network's overall performance and reliability. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: http://www.opendns.com