According to data from Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) RSA , Spain ranks third worldwide in the number of attacks against financial institutions. According to the report, the phishin g has increased by 66 percent in recent months worldwide. phishing attacks wreak havoc with banks around the world. In addition, the report prepared by the Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) RSA Over the past months phishing has increased dramatically worldwide, especially because the group ' Rock Phish' , creator of such attacks, stepped up its activity. Also, according to RSA have been identified and canceled many attacks based on Proxy servers that seem to be designed by different groups using a new phishing infrastructure called Rock-like . According to this organization, "These attacks show many similarities to the attacks by the Rock Phish but are hosted on completely different networks and show no signs known to the group." Responsible for of RSA , this shows that new groups are starting to adopt the methodology of Rock Phish.
Significantly, the reference to the English market, according to figures which gives the report, has risen three places on the report of last November, becoming the third largest financial institutions affected by phishing worldwide. Specifically, 7% of phishing sent around the world was against English banks affected 12 states with a total of 52 attacks, most of them from the United States. In this regard, during the last month a total of 159 financial institutions around the world received phishing attacks , 17% more than last month.
Alongside this, it should be noted that while the United States remains the largest sending country phishing attacks , the percentage has been reduced to mean 44% of the total. Second, Hong Kong, with 16% and China with 12%, form the top three as far as the ranking of major phishing hosters of .
The AFCC, working 24 x 7 , detects, monitors, tracks and blocks phishing attacks , pharming and Trojan s in more than 200 organizations around the world.
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