New data released by Kaspersky showed that phishing detections in local e-commerce and banking sectors doubled in the second quarter of 2022, compared to the first three months of the year. Phishing is a type of Internet fraud that seeks to acquire a user’s credentials by deception. It includes stealing...
Anti-phishing technology triggered more than 800k times from January to March, shows small and medium businesses need improved security capabilities as remote working continues Based on the latest statistics from Kaspersky, the first three months of 2020 proved to be busy for cybercriminals targeting small and medium businesses (SMBs) in...
In the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented over 107 million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35.7% were related to financial services and targeting customers through fake banking or payment pages. The IT sector was the second hardest hit, with 13.83 of attacks targeting tech...
Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails disguised as legitimate procurement and accounting letters that hit at least 400 industrial organizations in an attempt to earn money for the cybercriminals. The series of attacks started back in autumn 2017 and targeted several hundreds of company...
Almost half of all phishing attacks (fraudulent email messages or copycat websites that appear legitimate) registered in 2016 by Kaspersky Lab’s heuristic detection technologies were aimed at stealing their victim’s money, according to an analysis of the financial threat landscape by the company’s experts. Compared to 2015, the amount of...
9 out of 10 Filipino Internet users vulnerable to phishing attacks on Facebook Testing of user cyber savviness carried out by Kaspersky Lab has demonstrated that many people are still not sufficiently careful about their passwords. The internet security company carried out testing in the form of an online survey...
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