Internet research organization Netcraft released its new phishing attack map that shows a real-time visualisation of the phishiest countries in the world. By using IP address delegation information, Netcraft was able to attribute current phishing sites in its Phishing Site Feed to countries. Netcraft use the number of active sites found by their Web Server Survey to calculate and display the ratio of phishing attacks to web sites in each country. Below is the analysis by Netcraft.

A few themes become immediately apparent when studying the map. Countries with poor internet access may host very few phishing attacks, or even none at all, and therefore may appear very safe; however, countries with an extremely small number of websites can prove very volatile: For example, the Falkland Islands appears incredibly phishy by virtue of the fact that out of only 38 active sites hosted in that country, one of them is currently blocked for phishing.

Countries which respond slowly to taking down phishing sites are more likely to have a higher proportion of their sites engaged in phishing at any one time. As the map displays only currently blocked phishing attacks, this characteristic is highlighted particularly well in Morocco, which is the second phishiest country with nearly 200 of its 11,000 sites blocked.

Fraudsters commonly host their phishing sites on compromised servers, as this does not require a purchasing transaction, making it more difficult to correctly identify the perpetrators. Shared hosting services tend to be the least secure, so countries with a large number of sites running on shared hosts are likely to attract the attention of fraudsters.

Countries which host a large number of vulnerable and commonly targeted web applications consequently host a large number of phishing attacks, notwithstanding their responsiveness to takedown requests. This perhaps explains why the US appears phishier than either Russia or China, and some US hosting companies host more phishing attacks than entire European countries, as they provide proportionately more WordPress and hosting control panel administered sites, plus shared IP hosting configurations that allow customer content to be accessed from any domain that resolves to the same IP address. Our datasets show that these are the most favoured platforms for hosting fraudulent content on compromised servers.

From Netcraft report, there's increase in Phishing attacks using attached HTML forms to steal victims' credentials. It's more and more hard for novice to judge such tricks because of it's professional.  But it's good news if you're using firefox or chrome, Netcraft developed a Anti-phishing extension for both explorers. It's highly recommended extension for everyone. It will monitor the web security in real time and their database is being updated every day.

This article is quoted and translated from a popular Chinese blog. The points in the say are rarely to see from most populary categories, I translate it here and glad to share with my readers if you can pay a minute to read over. Maybe it will give you some ideas if you're in process of creating your internet business or other IT working.

Primers: Why facebook acquired Instagram with such high cost of 1 billion? I heard it's only a ten people team on the photo sharing application. What makes this small team to win the entrepreneurial success? I think it is "asymmetric warfare".

In the history, Microsoft released free IE to blow away the paid browser Netscape. In fact, many sino corperations realised the browser's importance to Internet till today. That's why whenever they do client end Apps they will always refer to browser. Microsoft against Netscape, because it's the whole Internet behind browser. QQ(the most popular IM software provider in China) develop mobile browser, because it's the battle of mobile Internet entrance.

It's wap times when UC do browser, traffic is very expensive. The speed is also slow, this led to a small niche market for UC, but it's indeed hard-demand. However this niche market is a large market for Netscape (we have to admire the Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, the vision of consciousness). Of course, the UC's entrance effect is highlighted now because of the outbreak growing up mobile Internet.

Now let's review the GOOGLE development course. When google came out, there're also lots of search companies. But they did not focus on search, or not even take it as the company's core competitiveness. For Yahoo, search is just part of it's business. Of course, the google algorithms innovation as well as the vision of the search market and insist on doing well in this market, these are core reasons they can conquer Yahoo.

We must see: they all share the same point — make it a big market from which is not optimistically recoginized by others at the beginning.(Of course, the premise is it's really likely to become a big market).

Now let's go back to analyze, why facebook acquire Instagram — a small product from a little team. The instagram traffic, can be analyzed easily by facebook because many instagram users shared photos to facebook. After data analysis, facebook found the surprise traffic growth from this application, maybe some day later will replace facebook to be the main player in mobile social.

What is facebook mostly fearing about? Being the hottest social platform? The fear to be abandoned by Mobile Internet?

Fear not be able to keep up with the Internet development trend, fear … to be no longer cool!

Large companies are fearing of too many things. Like Tencent, everything gets done but only several products did the best. The five-star products are always thousand people involved in research and development from big companies. The input and output rate is far beyond cost-effective comparing to instagram. So facebook acquires instagram product plus a ten people team, the founder might really think: damn good deal!

Fearing, means: asymmetric warfare

Large companies are mostly afraid of the "subversive innovation" products developed by small teams. Such small teams may have less than ten people, even five people, or even a single person? ! Internet competition is too horrible and too cruel. So in fact, Big group is the weak for entrepreneurship and competition on the Internet!

American fears of terrorism, it might be a joke in the eyes of many. It's only a pretext of the war. However, the Microsoft founder Bill Gates said, they have only 18 months left away from bankrupt. What makes an empire-style company resulting in 18 months bankrupt idea? Is the Internet! So there's story Microsoft against Netscape, Microsoft combat … and more!

This is why we say competition on the Internet is asymmetric. It has nothing to do with about how many people and how much money investment. It's all with the founder, with will, with humanity.

The growing prosperity of the Internet gives creators unlimited possibilities. Ten people a year, created instagram, worth one billion dollars. What else is more suitable for creative products other than Internet? Quotations: product designer is standing at the side of God. Too many philosophers in hisotry, famous few. Perhaps the greatest Confucius in China. Because he is more than a saint but greatest product manager. His "product" is very simple, but deeply rooted!

Creative work on the Internet is undoubtedly soul style. It's the same as theology, religion, philosophy, culture, art. Internet competition is definitely applied to: asymmetric warfare.