The number of brands used in spoofed emails that trick people into visiting malicious Web sites or clicking on malware attachments rose in the second quarter. Payment and financial services brands were the most popular, used in three-quarters of attacks. The previous high was 614 in the fourth quarter of 2012. The amount of new malware used in phishing attacks rose by 12 percent from the same period a year ago, the Anti-Phishing Working Group says. The United States remained the number one hosting country for phishing sites for most of the quarter.”]

