Case Study
Nationwide Foils Phishers with MarkMonitor
Executive Summary As a leading U.K.-based financial institution, Nationwide Building Society became one of a number of prime targets for online fraud as offenders increasingly used the organisation as a “test bed” for online phishing scams. Nationwide noticed a dramatic rise in phishing attacks in 2006, up from two or three attacks per month in 2005 to more than 100 per month the following year. As a result, staff became almost overwhelmed w