The Avalanche phishing gang, reputedly the world's most active, has changed tactics, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

The APWG is a global coalition of more than 1,800 industry, law enforcement and other government and non-governmental organizations formed in 2003 to fight identity theft and fraud resulting from phishing, e-mail spoofing and crimeware.

The cyber thieves have moved from using conventional e-mail spam to trick users into entering their PINs and passwords at spoof sites and instead are relying more on infecting computers with the Zeus Trojan credential-stealing malware.

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