The primary target is PayPal, the victim of more than half (52.2%) of all phishing attacks. eBay is the second most targeted organization at 13.3% and HSBC rounds out the top three with a 7.8% share. The report also revealed that links to phishing sites appear in 0.57% of all mail traffic.
Facebook's presence on the top 10 list -- it is the target of 5.7% of attacks -- comes as no surprise given the string of widely publicized phishing attacks in recent months. Most recently, board member Jim Breyer saw his account compromised in a phishing attack that was perpetuated via a misleading Facebook event invitation.
What's even more remarkable, however, is that Facebook is a more popular target than Google and the IRS. Google ranks fifth on the list of organizations, accounting for 3.1% of the phishing pie, while the IRS attracts 2.2% of attacks.
The full report looks at both phishing attacks and spam. There's good news on the spam front, as the volume of spam has stabilized. "The saturation of the spam market has led to a halt in the growth of the volume of unwanted emails in mail traffic, having stabilized at around 85.2% in the first quarter of 2010," the report said.
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