That being so the trend target of cyber criminal’s phishing attack is an online game.

Kaspersky Lab released a report that spam activity occurred in May 2011. Compared with last month, by e-mail spam rose 2.1%, so that the average total of 82.9%.

Kaspersky also reported that malware's number of posts increases, while decreasing the amount of the spread of phishing messages.

Online Gaming's Biggest Targets of Phishing

Despite the decline in aggregate, but there are a number of specific target attacks have increased, the online gaming sites. A total of 4.67% of phishing emails directed to the online game, which is usually deployed in order to steal passwords.

The gameplay is attacked, among others, RuneScape. RuneScape attractive to cyber criminals, and even more under attack than the popular social networking site Facebook.

In addition to online gaming, which is also exciting to be a target of the attack is an online payment site, PayPal. At PayPal, the number of phishing e-mails increased slightly, but 23.28% higher than April 2011.

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