Global Phishing Survey Is Too "Phishy" to Swallow

The APWG, a committee dedicated to combating Internet scams and fraud, released what they call the Global Phishing Survey today. The report, which analyzed more than 30,000 phishing websites in 2008, can be downloaded here (PDF).

The organization measured the prevalence of a given domain using the metric “phishing attacks per 10,000.” It looked at TLDs with a minimum of 30,000 registrations. Venezuela’s .ve came in first, with a score of 182.3 attacks per 10,000 domains. Trailing far behind in second is Thailand with a score of 22.1 for its .th domain.

France came in eleventh with a score of 3.3. The .uk extension didn’t make the list. Surprisingly, .info had a low score. It bested .com’s 1.8 and .org’s 2.1 with a rock-bottom 1.0. The median score was 2.7 and the average was 6.3, a number which the APWG admits is skewed by TLDs with a high number of registrations.
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