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Top three phishing target sites in China

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According to a report from Anti-Phishing Alliance of China (APAC), up to Oct. 22nd, APAC has handled accumulated up to 8342 phishing site domain in China. The top three targets of phishing sites are TengXun(famous for their IM client QQ), TaoBao(biggest online shopping site in China), and ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China).

Another astonishing figure shows that out of 338 million of internet users in China, there are about 110 million of them have ever encountered a problem of account or password stolen in recent half a year!

It is really a tough task to protect accounts and passwords for general users.

News source: http://www.chinanews.com.cn/it/it-itxw/news/2009/10-26/1931366.shtml

Written by superzap

October 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

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