Every second there is a financial attack


Every second there is a financial attack



The company's 'anti-phishing' technologies detected about 155 million attempts in 2016, according to Kaspersky Lab



   Nearly half of the financial phishing attacks recorded in 2016 were aimed at getting the money from their victims, according to a study by Kaspersky Lab, which indicates that this type of fraudulent operations grew by 13.14% in 2016 compared to data one year earlier.

In the past twelve months, the company's technologies to monitor these fraudulent practices detected about 155 million attempts, by users to visit the different types of pages.

   Of these, more than 73.5 million, close to 50%, had their origin in financial phishing attacks with the objective of obtaining personal information from users, such as account numbers, social security numbers, identifiers and passwords used in digital banking.

Banking phishing is at the forefront of financial phishing. 25.76% of attacks used false online banking information or other content related to banks, with an increase of 8.31 percentage points compared to 2015. The percentage of phishing related to payment systems and electronic stores, was 11.55% and 10.14%, respectively.

Cybercriminals like to use data related to the most important multinational banks, most popular payment systems and online stores and auctions in the United States, China and Brazil in their scams.

The list of brands has remained unchanged from one year to the next, as its popularity remains high and, therefore, remain a lucrative goal for cybercriminals

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