Google became the company that became the main target of phishing (burglary).
The report states that Google is in the top position among the various companies that most frequently attacked phishing activities (12.6 percent). The second place was occupied up (ten percent), while Yahoo came third (as much as 6.4 per cent). The number of attacks against Yahoo! is made to shift the position of Windows Live as one of the three companies most often attacked by phishers, in addition to Google and Facebook.
This analysis also revealed that in August, there is an increase in phishing activity by nearly 1.5 times the number of attacks as many as 32 million.
While the top three malware in August is a trojan in the first position, the redirector and fraud in the second position, and Upatre Trojan-Downloader in the third position. Redirector will redirect users to infected sites, where users are invited to download Binbot normally.
The fraud is shipping activity registration form for online banking services that result (if the victim fell for the scam it) will be sent to the phishers in the form of financial information. Meanwhile, Trojan-Downloader Upatre is a malware will usually download-Banker Trojan designed to attack financial institutions.
Tatyana Shcherbakova (Anti-Spam Analyst at Kaspersky Lab) stated that in August, it noted an increase in the number of phishing attacks as much as 62 percent. This thought may be due to the seasonal decline in demand for advertising spam. He stated that in order to be able to continue to make money, the cybercriminals have turned to other kinds of spam, including phishing scams.
According to him, the fake messages from well-known services, social networking or financial organization, the phisher to significantly increase the success of their spam attacks. "In order to avoid becoming a victim, remember this simple rule: check the return address and be very careful with the message that contains an attachment. It is better to contact the company directly instead of opening the e-mail address and your personal data loss, "said Tatyana. Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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