Xmas shoppers: rich pickin’s for phishers

Hong Kong-headquartered security firm Network Box reported that an analysis of web-based threats showed that phishing doubled in a month, probably because of the number of potential victims — people shopping on line in December.

Network Box said that its analysis of web-based threats showed that 57 percent of the threats in December were phishing attacks. In November they pegged that number at 28.3 percent.

The company predicted that the increase in Phishing would continue into January.

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Tom Kelchner