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Stats › January 2011

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The statistics on this page are for January 1, 2011 through January 31, 2011.

Total Submissions: 16,019

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

Valid Phishes: 12,789

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

Invalid Phishes: 549

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: 69,648

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: 02 hours, 23 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 January 2011.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (6,290)
2     propriome (1,171)
3     cleanmx (850)
4     zender (784)
5     ksulis (434)
6     knack (406)
7     Matty0364 (403)
8     zender2 (392)
9     paulch (317)
10     kirhven (311)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     stuartgrant (8,967)
2     Aminof (8,479)
3     cybercrime (8,388)
4     knack (7,636)
5     theGeezer (6,132)
6     buaya (3,814)
7     marcoadfox (3,353)
8     phxcz (2,878)
9     tetak (2,525)
10     demartin (2,062)

Phishing URLs

In January, 532 phishes (4% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 12,258 (or 96%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     t35.com (724)
2     altervista.org (561)
3     ripway.com (211)
4     easily.co.uk (196)
5     atspace.com (173)
6     hdfree.com.br (140)
7     110mb.com (118)
8     es.tl (108)
9     hdfree.in (103)
10     hd1.com.br (102)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     199.204.44.130 (892)
2     69.10.48.106 (649)
3     66.45.237.212 (644)
4     91.215.158.57 (335)
5     173.236.61.218 (297)
6     178.162.164.24 (273)
7     66.7.194.193 (242)
8     64.62.181.46 (211)
9     94.103.151.195 (202)
10     82.197.131.109 (184)

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     vexxhost 903
2     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 728
3     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 670
4     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 526
5     HostDime.com, Inc. 441
6     SingleHop 436
7     LEASEWEB LEASEWEB AS 378
8     iWeb Technologies Inc. 294
9     NETDIRECT AS NETDIRECT Frankfurt, DE 286
10     LAMBDANET-AS European Backbone of LambdaNet 245

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 6,707
2     Sulake Corporation 1,079
3     Facebook 917
4     Orkut 588
5     World of Warcraft 379
6     Bradesco 247
7     Tibia 239
8     HSBC Group 173
9     Steam 140
10     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 92