‘Phishing’ scams explode worldwide

‘Phishing’ scams explode worldwide

Saturday, 22 June 2013

WASHINGTON: Email scams known as phishing, in which a hacker uses a disguised address to get an Internet user to install malware, rose 87 percent worldwide in the past year, a security firm said yesterday.

These schemes affected some 37.3 million users in the 12 months to April 30, according to a report by the Russia-based security firm Kaspersky.

“The number of fraudulent websites and servers used in attacks has more than tripled since 2012, and more than 50 percent of the total number of individual targets were fake copies of the websites of banks and other credit and financial organizations,” Kaspersky said.

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