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The Anti-Phishing Working Group has posted their phishing trends report for the month of January 2006. The group reports 9,715 unique phishing sites in the month of January, up almost 35% from December 2005.

The full report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group is available at: http://antiphishing.org/reports/apwg_report_jan_2006.pdf.

Wired wrote 2 solid articles on the 17 million entry database supposedly belonging to “Ibill”. The first one discusses the discovery of over 17 million entries exposing internet consumers. The follow-up covers the fact that Ibill denies that this is their data, and rightfully so, since they do not entertain Diner’s Club cards. So who’s data is this? And who is specialham.com? According to google cache phishers and spammers are selling “18 million Ibill” for $1300.00.