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Stats › January 2010

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The statistics on this page are for January 1, 2010 through January 31, 2010.

Total Submissions: 18,836

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

Valid Phishes: 5,751

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

Invalid Phishes: 518

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: 54,857

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: 12 hours, 10 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 2010.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (7,423)
2     cleanmx (4,713)
3     propriome (1,262)
4     balomish (506)
5     njh (359)
6     buaya (343)
7     PhishnChips (286)
8     joewein (271)
9     tzepar (264)
10     zender (229)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     buaya (12,463)
2     stuartgrant (11,908)
3     cybercrime (6,214)
4     NotBuyingIt (5,906)
5     tetak (4,463)
6     SuIsh (1,360)
7     marcoadfox (909)
8     knack (820)
9     cconniejean (791)
10     diapente (562)

Phishing URLs

In January, 400 phishes (7% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 5,350 (or 93%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     atspace.com (231)
2     t35.com (100)
3     justfree.com (47)
4     sekie.com (46)
5     tinyurl.com (44)
6     sucipa.vc (42)
7     pochta.ru (42)
8     altervista.org (37)
9     110mb.com (31)
10     ucom.ne.jp (29)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     82.197.131.109 (239)
2     74.86.159.176 (94)
3     212.85.69.252 (86)
4     91.201.29.254 (78)
5     174.142.90.106 (74)
6     69.10.48.106 (69)
7     66.45.237.212 (68)
8     194.67.36.117 (66)
9     77.92.83.100 (57)
10     209.172.59.196 (53)

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     LAMBDANET-AS European Backbone of LambdaNet 255
2     iWeb Technologies Inc. 198
3     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 177
4     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 126
5     LGDACOM LG DACOM Corporation 122
6     HANARO-AS Hanaro Telecom Inc. 111
7     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 101
8     OVH OVH 93
9     GoDaddy.com, Inc. 87
10     BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone 86

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 7,812
2     Tibia 690
3     Internal Revenue Service 509
4     HSBC Group 462
5     Facebook 174
6     Bank of America Corporation 164
7     Steam 147
8     Sulake Corporation 141
9     Wachovia 116
10     HSBC 110