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Organized criminal gangs are targeting online consumers with ever more sophisticated blended phishing attacks - some of which even find out details of their interests and use them to generate tailored phishing emails - security experts have warned. People with the most basic technical knowledge are finding it increasingly easy to launch phishing attacks using read-made software they download from the internet. Barclays Bank customers are falling victim to one of the latest phishing attacks. An initial test of new technology by credit card company Mastercard has revealed around 10,000 card accounts being traded illegally. The number of new, unique phishing attacks rose 180 percent between March and April, according to a report issued Monday by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. David Brunswick, technical director for Tumbleweed Communications Europe and a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, discusses potential solutions in the fight against phishing Crafty spammer scammers have thought up a novel way to extort money through phishing – by asking users to send a fax. Spammers and phishers hoping to profit from hurricane Katrina have been waging a week-long email campaign. Phishers trying to find new ways to extort users are tugging on the heart strings with the story of a wheelchair-bound senior citizen. Networks of compromised PCs or botnets are fast becoming the weapon of choice for organized gangs to launch phishing attacks, according to a new report. Phishing is now an accepted fact of life for many Internet users. Most of the emails that they receive are clearly from friends or business contacts, or clearly fraudulent. But there are a few, just a few, that might just be genuine, and there will always be a small percentage of users who will follow the link sent them in the email, and connect to what they think is their bank, and give the phishers their reward. Credit unions are increasingly becoming a target of phishing scams, according to the latest report from the Anti-phishing Working Group. Vigilante defacers are turning the tables on phishing groups by taking down spoofed websites. Nearly 1,400 phishing websites and another 750 purporting to sell credit card numbers have been closed down following a clampdown by MasterCard. Delivery of phishing emails rose 42 percent in January, as internet criminals attack more companies and compromise more computers worldwide, a new report reveals. Brazilian federal police have delivered the cybercrime Holy Grail by arresting a man suspected to be one of the world’s biggest phishers. Valdir Paulo de Almeida allegedly masterminded a $37 million operation, ripping-off recipients of phishing emails. Fraudsters are starting to use a technique which allow them to exploit weaknesses in banking websites to display contents from any arbitrary URL within a frame. Phishers are using Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Program as a cover to defraud email users of money, according to security experts. Phishers are targeting hapless AOL users in an attempt to steal personal information and credit card details, according to Websense Security Labs. A seismic attack on business could be just around the corner, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. With active phishing sites more than doubling through October the group indicated that automated production and increased use by organised crime might threaten businesses in the future.