The amount of time phishing websites remain online has dropped 25 percent over the last year, according to a new survey by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG).
"In particular, the survey demonstrates how anti-abuse programs at domain registries can have an immediate impact on the problem."
The survey also found that a single criminal syndicate called "Avalanche" was responsible for nearly one quarter of all phishing attacks in the first half of 2009. Indications are that the group is continuing to claim a larger proportion of all detected phishing attacks.
"The results show that on the Internet, action and involvement by responsible parties can really help Internet users," said Greg Aaron, co-author and Director of Domain Security at Afilias.
"When everyone takes responsibility and does their part to make it a safer place, good things happen. We think that is what we are seeing in the results of this study, and we'd all like to see more."
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