Do you know which is the most phished site in the world?

It is Paypal. Actually it is an easy guess for anybody, which knows what is phishing, and are the purposes of phishing.

In fact, nine out of the top ten most phished sites are finance related, as stated by the data unveiled by phishtank.com for the month of March on their website. This is understandable also, because phishing is commonly used for obtaining the user’s personal data for immediate financial gains.

The only non-financial site on this list is Facebook, which is a social networking site among youth and is gaining popularity by each passing day. Facebook appears at the seventh position in this list.

Phishing of social networking site like Facebook is generally used to send messages leading to melware spread such as Koobface Worm to the people in the contact list of the person whose account has been compromised.