The world leader in cyber intelligence, Cyveillance, announced today that, during the first half of 2008, 367 unique brands were first-time victims of targeted phishing attacks, representing an 80 percent increase over the second half of 2007. This increase in phishing attacks on new brands, as noted in Cyveillance's upcoming 1H 2008 "Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report", represents close to 20 percent of all new attacks since 2005.

Key Findings from Cyveillance's 1H 2008 "Online Financial Fraud and Identify Theft Report" will include:

- Representing a 80% increase over the second half of 2007, 367 unique new brands were phished in the first half of 2008.
- Cyveillance has identified, since 2005, over 2000 unique new brands that have been the victim of targeted phishing attacks.
- Accounting for nearly 95% of all attacks, financial institutions continue to be the main targets of phishing attacks.
- Phishers continue to expand attacks worldwide. In the first half of 2008, with numerous new targets in the Middle East and Latin America, Cyveillance identified phishing attacks in 30 different countries.

Cyveillance's continuous monitoring technology thoroughly sweeps the Internet - monitoring and collecting information from over 200 million unique domain name servers, 90 thousand message boards, 80 million blogs, 150 million unique Web sites, billions of spam emails, thousands of IRC/Chat channels, auction sites, bot networks and more. This approach yields the discovery of more than 100 thousand new sites each day.

The world leader in cyber intelligence, Cyveillance, provides an intelligence-led approach to security. Cyveillance, through continuous, comprehensive Internet monitoring and sophisticated intelligence analysis, proactively identifies and eliminates threats to information, infrastructure, individuals and their interactions, enabling its customers to preserve their reputation, revenues, and customer trust. Cyveillance serves the Global 2000 and OEM Data Partners - protecting the majority of the Fortune 50, regional financial institutions nationwide, and more than 30 million global consumers through its partnerships with security and service providers that include AOL and Microsoft.