Two institutions accounted for 96.75 per cent of all phishing attacks in August

Two-thirds of phishing scams target single US bank

Fifth Third Bank heads August phishing list by a mile

Written by Matt Chapman

vnunet.com, 13 Sep 2006

Customers of the Fifth Third Bank in America were the most at risk from phishing attacks in August, according to figures from antivirus firm McAfee.

The top two institutions targeted in August accounted for a whopping 96.75 per cent of all phishing attacks.

Fifth Third Bank made up 60.47 per cent of the attacks, and 36.28 per cent were sent to customers of the Sun Trust Bank.

Volks Bank was identified in 2.52 per cent of the internet scams and eBay featured in fourth place at0.34 per cent.

The most prevalent internet threat for August was the JS/Wonka Trojan, which downloads other pieces of malicious software onto the victim's PC.

Of the 761,559 PCs McAfee scanned in August, more than 42,000 were infected with JS/Wonka.

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