APWG Survey Finds One Third of Web Hosts Are Repeat Victims of Phishing

Charts illustrate the most frequently attacked operating systems





(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A new study finds that more than one-third of Web hosts were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in successful phishing on their server platforms.


This report comes two weeks after Google blocked a spear-phishing attempt directed at the Gmail accounts of US government officials.


The survey, released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.antiphishing.org) on Thursday,

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