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Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks

2013-04-26 17:12:11| InfoWorld: Top News

Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all phishing attacks recorded worldwide during the second half of 2012 involved such mass break-ins, APWG said in the latest edition of its Global Phishing Survey report published Thursday.

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