10,000 users face phishing attacks daily in India: Kaspersky

[mmadhankumar]

About 10,000 Internet users in India face phishing attacks from cyber criminals daily, says a report by security solutions provider Kaspersky.

Phishing is a form of Internet fraud in which criminals create a fake copy of a popular site (an email service, an Internet banking website, a social networking site) and try to lure the users to these rogue web pages. The unsuspecting user enters their login information.

According to the report, the world on an average saw 1.02 lakh phishing attacks every day last year.

"In 2012-2013, 102,100 users around the world were subjected to phishing attacks on a daily basis. In Russia, 19,000 users were attacked each day, 12,000 in the US, 10,000 in India, 6,000 in Germany, 3,000 in France, and another 3,000 in the UK," the report said.

These numbers were much lower in 2011-12. Over the period about 52,000 users globally were subjected to phishing attacks daily. On average, 12,000 users were attacked in Russia, 5,000 in the US, 4,000 in India, 3,000 in Germany, 2,000 in France, and 1,000 users in the UK, it added.

"Overall, the volume and intensity of phishing attacks has more than doubled over the past two years," it said.

In 2012-2013, 37.3 million users around the world were subjected to phishing attacks, up 87 per cent from 2011-2012.

"Most often, phishing attacks targeted users in Russia, the US, India, Vietnam and the UK. Phishing attacks were most frequently launched from the US, the UK, Germany, Russia and India," the report revealed.

Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and Amazon are top targets of malicious users. Online game services, online payment systems, and the websites of banks and other credit and financial organisations are also common targets, it added.

Over 20 per cent of all attacks targeted banks and other credit and financial organisations, Kaspersky said in its report.


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[rudra pratap]

The reason for those threats are basically two. One when the person starts using the knowledge illegally he tries to earn money in a shortcut way. So he starts using the knowledge in a wrong way.
Two when the people are forced to do the same for some-one else.
And by the way Phishing is the best way for a hacker to hack some-one's id/account and use it.Also over internet there are unlimited resources regarding his topic.