Weekly analysis - 19th December 2015 to 26th December 2015

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26-Dec-2015

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 19th December 2015 to 26th December 2015

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Over the last week MillerSmiles has received many scams from the public and through its HoneyTrap scam detection system. Below we provide an analysis of the scams we have received for the week of 19th December 2015 to 26th December 2015


During the week we reported a total of 22 phishing scams

19 or 86% of these scams linked to websites that were still online and live, ready to capture personal data, when we reported them

The 12 most popular scams as defined by search engine visits to our archive of scams we reported this week and in previous weeks were (as percentage of all visits to the site)

0.25% [PAYPAAL VERIFICATION] UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION ✔ alleged sender PayPaal reported 21st December 2015

0.24% PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION alleged sender NOTICE reported 19th December 2015

0.23% IMPORTANT INFORMATION: PLEASE UPDATE NOW alleged sender USAA reported 17th December 2015

0.22% VERY IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION: UPDATE NOW alleged sender USAA reported 17th December 2015

0.22% YOU HAVE (1) NEW DOCUMENT - SHARED DROPBOX alleged sender Dropbox reported 21st December 2015

0.22% [Important] : Update Your Account Information alleged sender PayPal reported 20th December 2015

0.22% FACTORY OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FROM CHINA alleged sender Mia Zhang reported 23rd December 2015

0.22% YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SHUT DOWN; LAST WARNING alleged sender USAA Online Banking reported 21st December 2015

0.21% YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED alleged sender PayPal reported 16th December 2015

0.21% CHECK YOUR ACCOUNT alleged sender Service Inc reported 20th December 2015

0.2% DEAR ESTEEMED CUSTOMER, alleged sender OFAMERICA BANK. reported 15th December 2015

0.2% Your account will expire soon alleged sender App.support reported 21st December 2015

 

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	3
PAYPAL	2
IMPORTANT	2
NOTICE	2
SUPPORT	2
CHASE	2
SERVICE	2
INC	2
NATWEST	2
TESCO	1
PLC.	1
PAYPAI	1

 

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	16
ACCOUNT	15
BEEN	7
HAS	7
PAYPAL	4
YOU	3
✔	3
LIMITED	3
INC]	2
FROM	2
HAVE	2
[SUPPORT	2

 

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	4
BRAZIL	3
GERMANY	3
UNITED KINGDOM	2
HONG KONG	1
INDONESIA	1
CYPRUS	1
AUSTRALIA	1
COSTA RICA	1
CHINA	1

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