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Stats › September 2010

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The statistics on this page are for September 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010.

Total Submissions: 16,439

The total number of suspected phishes submitted by the PhishTank community.

Valid Phishes: 11,628

The total number of submissions verified as valid by the PhishTank community.

Invalid Phishes: 503

The total number of submissions verified as invalid by the PhishTank community.

Note: Many phishing emails were offline at the time of submission to PhishTank. Offline phishes cannot be voted on, and therefore cannot be verified.

Total Votes: 64,660

The total number of "is a phish," "is not a phish," and "I don't know" votes made by the PhishTank community.

Median Time To Verify: 03 hours, 55 minutes

The median time it took the PhishTank community to verify submissions as valid or invalid.



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 20,000 members of the PhishTank community, these members were the most active in September 2010.

Note: One member account (PhishReporter) represents an organization, not an individual.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (8,799)
2     propriome (1,328)
3     zender (716)
4     cleanmx (554)
5     paulch (520)
6     stuartgrant (433)
7     Harrison (401)
8     zender2 (232)
9     joewein (164)
10     vmcosta (136)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     stuartgrant (12,924)
2     knack (10,966)
3     Aminof (5,827)
4     NotBuyingIt (5,048)
5     theGeezer (4,468)
6     buaya (3,880)
7     cybercrime (3,827)
8     tetak (2,880)
9     Astral (2,215)
10     Harrison (1,104)

Phishing URLs

In September, 727 phishes (6% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 10,901 (or 94%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     t35.com (390)
2     kurskavtoservis.ru (332)
3     iesalbasit.es (176)
4     tripod.com (161)
5     altervista.org (156)
6     hdfree.com.br (138)
7     skandinavy.ru (129)
8     atspace.com (112)
9     evatic.com (89)
10     hotaruplugins.com (82)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     66.49.214.28 (578)
2     69.10.48.106 (333)
3     94.229.79.20 (332)
4     209.51.132.1 (319)
5     66.45.237.212 (315)
6     64.22.69.45 (266)
7     66.7.194.193 (185)
8     84.124.11.110 (176)
9     209.202.252.50 (163)
10     212.217.0.30 (152)

Networks That Host Phishes

The servers hosting verified phishes are under the responsibility of these networks. PhishTank knows this because it traces phishing Web sites to an IP address. These are the organizations responsible for those IP addresses.

Top 10 NetworksValid Phishes
1     Global Net Access, LLC 644
2     Canaca-com Inc. 592
3     SingleHop 454
4     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 392
5     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 370
6     UKSERVERS-AS UK Dedicated Servers Limited 335
7     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 329
8     HostDime.com, Inc. 285
9     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 280
10     iWeb Technologies Inc. 279

Popular Targets

These are the brands that were fraudulently represented in phishing emails. Targets are identified by the submitter at the time of submission, or determined by PhishTank's software to the best of its ability. The majority of phishes are not categorized with a target.

Top 10 Identified TargetsValid Phishes
1     PayPal 9,022
2     HSBC Group 552
3     World of Warcraft 517
4     Tibia 296
5     Facebook 289
6     Sulake Corporation 236
7     Bradesco 207
8     Steam 207
9     Zynga 176
10     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 170