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Phishing Attacks Increasingly Target Financial Data - Help Net Security

February 13, 2015

Phishing Attacks Increasingly Target Financial Data - Help Net Security

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28.8 percent of phishing attacks last year aimed to steal financial data from consumers, according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab. The results show how cybercriminals have shifted their focus from banks to payment systems and online shopping websites.

Highlights include:

  • Cybercriminals used the names of well-known banks in 16.3 percent of attacks; in 2013, the level of bank phishing was 22.2 percent
  • In the Payment Systems category, cybercriminals mostly targeted data belonging to Visa card owners (31.02 percent), PayPal (30.03 percent) and American Express (24.6 percent)
  • The names of well-known online shopping sites were used in 7.3 percent of attacks compared to 6.5 percent in 2013
  • In 5.1 percent of cases, Kaspersky Lab’s protection technologies were triggered by phishing pages mentioning payment systems, which is 2.4 percent more than in 2013
  • The proportion of financial phishing detected on Mac systems increased by 9.6 percent compared to the previous year, representing 48.5 percent of all instances in which the anti-phishing component of Kaspersky Lab security products for Mac OS X was triggered.

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Phishing Attacks Increasingly Target Financial Data - Help Net Security

Phishing Attacks Increasingly Target Financial Data - Help Net Security
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