Top Countries Hosting Phishing Web Sites and Top Targets Phished

In the second half of 2007, 66% of all phishing attacks detected were associated with Web sites located in the United States. For phishing attacks with Web sites hosted in the United States, all of the top 10 targets are also headquartered there. The top target phished on Web sites hosted in the United States was a social networking site. Together with another social networking site, these two sites accounted for 91% of phishing attacks with Web sites hosted in the United States.

Source: Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, Vol. XIII