A total of 157 marks underwent attacks of phising, of which six were Spanish banks. > The attacked financial organization more in 2005 has been the BBVA with 55 attacks, followed of Bancaja 51, and Caja Madrid 50, already to more Banesto distance 22 attacks and Popular Bank 10, 11 BSCH and the Caixa with 7 attacks. Ebay with 20 attacks and Pay Pale with 6 head the listing of organizations no financiers attacked by Phising. > Esteem that enters May of the 2004 and May of the 2005, approximately 1,2 million users of computers in the United States had losses because of phishing, which adds approximately 929 million American dollars. > In December of 2005 15244 different attacks took place phishing in the world. > Some delinquents can make changes in your computer so that when you accede to stores online, or banking services you do not see the original page, but other imitates than it perfectly. If you introduce your data in those pages they will stop directly at the hands of criminals who will be able to use them of fraudulent form.
Normally, the necessary changes for this attack become using troyanos, reason why the best defense is to always have an up-to-date anti-virus. > Sometimes, the thieves secure the data necessary to commit suplantaciones of identity in Internet by means of the correspondence robbery, with false telephone calls pretending to be used of the company of electrical, for example, and even looking for papers in the sweepings of the possible victims. > According to the Group of Investigations of Public Interest of California, besides lost direct by a swindle online or a robbery of identity, the victims of these attacks spend in average 175 hours investigating and giving to pursuit to the crime and 23 months correcting and controlling their information of credit. > In case of being victim of a fraud online one is due to immediately contact with the emitting companies of the accounts or credit cards implied so that they are cancelled and to inform on the incident to the police. > Before carrying out purchases online he is very advisable to review the agreement with the user and the policy of privacy of the Web site, to find out how the company uses the information of its credit card and the rest of its personal data. > Most of the swindles are realised in forums and blogs of Internet, and can have serious consequences, including sentimental ruptures or labor problems.
> In 2004, the Federal Commission of Comercio of the USA received more than 650,000 denunciations by identity robbery, although it considered that there were almost 10 million users affected by that type of crimes. > In 2005 the vulnerabilities in programs have increased a 15%. Most important concerning user they are related to Windows (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and Outlook Express), reproducers multimedia and instantaneous mail. Concerning services of network, failures in Windows and Cisco equipment. > The emotional impact when discovering a crime due to an identity robbery is similar to which happens when a crime with violence takes place. If you have some case of fraud online, sends your denunciation beating here. Sources of intelligence: Panda Software – PandLabs, Association of Internauts, Gartner, CERT, Antiphishing Working Group, CSO, FBI, Ferris Research, Association of Users of Internet, RSA.