· An estimated 59 million phishing e-mails are sent each day. · About 1 in 6 are opened. · The average loss per victim in 2006 was $1,244, compared with $257 in 2004. · Victims recovered an ...

Phishing is rapidly becoming an enormous problem for both consumers and online banks. The Gardner Group estimates that last year, it cost online banks about $1.2-billion.

Whale phishing targets a ‘big fish’ like a corporate CEO in order to steal a company’s funds, trade secrets or intellectual property. Smishing. Smishing is phishing via SMS text message.

The claim: Hackers use visually similar characters to deceive people in online phishing schemes. Online attackers bent on stealing personal information are using a visual deception to trick people ...