Source: Byron Acohido, USA Today

Phishers are back with a vengeance, armed with some alarming new trickery.

Those e-mail scammers who try to fool you into typing your user name and passwords at faked financial Web pages have been around in force since 2002. They remain active, though many Web users have gotten adept at spotting, and avoiding, ruses to get their financial account log-ons.

However, after a lull at the start of this year, phishing attacks suddenly spiked 200% from May through September, according to IBM’s X-Force research team. Phishers are going after log-ons to Web mail, social networking and online gaming accounts, security experts say.

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