Phishtank (powered by OpenDNS) a free repository for phishing sites, released some interesting stats that show phishing activity for the month of October 2006.

The Top 10 identified phishing targets are all within the financial services industry and a quarter of all phishing sites originate within the US.

Top 10 Identified Phishing Targets
1. Paypal
2. eBay, Inc.
3. Barclays
4. Fifth Third Bank
5. Volksbanken & Raiffeisenbanken (Germany)
6. Bank of America
7. Wells Fargo
8. Key Bank
9. JP Morgan Chase
10. Citibank

I’ve been playing with Microsoft IE7 since it started shipping as beta and it seems to do a reasonably good job in identifying suspicious sites.

Other anti-phishing tools:
o Netcraft Toolbar
o Google Toolbar - Safe Browsing Feature, Firefox only

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