Use of Automated Phishing Toolkits

A phishing toolkit is a set of scripts that allows an attacker to automatically set up phishing Web sites that spoof the legitimate Web sites of different brands, including the images and logos associated with those brands. Three phishing toolkits were responsible for 26% of all phishing attacks observed in the second half of 2007. This is a decrease from the first half of 2007, when three phishing toolkits were responsible for 42% of all phishing attacks.

Source: Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, Vol. XIII