35,000 new phishing websites in just a month

The monthly report from https://www.antiphishing.org/ is always an instructive read. This April report contains some surprising numbers, as shown by the graphic below:

The happy spike you notice in April07 is in fact not happy at all: it shows the efforts of phishers to strain the antiphishing countermeasures offered by IE7 and Firefox 2. It's a 166% up from March and 48% more than the former record in the past 12 months: a similar resolution really deserves a very firm answer. A strategic one. I personally believe that the best answer is defusing the situation is by changing the rules of the game; but if are reading this you probably already know, don't you ;-)