Since its appearance, the phishing has continuously evolved, phishers launching every month new methods to convince users to disclose personal information.

From e-mail messages announcing the renewal of a certain account to forged sites, phishers have tried them all.

In this moment, it seems phishers have resorted to another method to get their hands on credit card information. The report published by Websense Security Labs pointed out that keylogger type programs have been found in several phishing schemes; these applications have been placed on the victims' systems using trojans.

Websense Security Labs, which is monitoring the phishing attacks from last year's December, noticed that during March and February 10 new keylogger type applications have appeared and at least 100 new sites were spreading them.

In December and November, there was one, maybe two programs of this type spread by 10-15 sites.

It seems that Brazil is the most affected by the phishing schemes, the latest attack launched from America succeeding in infecting 100,000 mail addresses.
The United States are hosting the majority of phishing sites, followed by China and Korea.

In March, users have reported 13,000 e-mails that contained phishing schemes.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group has declared the number of attacks of this type has increased in average with 38% every month in the last half of 2004. In 2004, the phishing and pharming attacks have generated losses amounting to 2.6 billion dollars which were mostly supported by the online stores.