According to the results of Kaspersky Lab’s "The evolution of phishing attacks 2011-2013" survey:

* 12% of all registered phishing attacks were launched via spam mailings

* 20% of all phishing attacks mimicked banks and other financial organizations.

* 30% of all registered incidents involved fake versions of their sites.

* 56% of all identified unique attack sources were found in 10 countries.

* 88% of cases came from links to phishing pages which people followed while using a web browser, a messaging system (Skype, etc.) or interacting with the computer

* Facebook, Yahoo, Google and Amazon are among main targets of cybercriminals.

* In 2012-2013, phishers launched attacks affecting an average of 102,100 people worldwide each day, twice as many as in 2011-2012.

* Internet users who faced phishing attacks over the last 12 months has grown from 19.9 million to 37.3 million, an increase of 87%

* Phishing attacks most often target users in Russia, the USA, India, Vietnam and the UK.

* The attackers have a small set of preferred “home bases” to launch their attacks.

* The majority of the servers hosting phishing pages were registered in the USA, the UK, Germany, Russia and India.

* The services of Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and Amazon were most often attacked by phishers.

* Unique attack sources, such as fraudulent websites and servers, has more than tripled from2012-2013.

The study was carried out in June 2013 based on data from the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service. During the survey, Kaspersky Lab specialists compared data on phishing attacks from over 50 million Kaspersky Security Network users between 1 May 2012 and 30 April 2013 with figures for the equivalent period of 2011-2012

Kaspersky Lab report: 37.3 million users experienced phishing attacks in the last year