Half of 2016’s phishing attacks aimed to steal money

Almost half (47.48 percent) of all phishing attacks in 2016 were aimed at stealing victim's money, and the amount of financial phishing attacks increased by 13.14 percent according to a new report. The study by Kaspersky Lab analyzed attacks registered in 2016 by the company's heuristic detection technologies. Kaspersky's anti-phishing technologies detected almost 155 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages last year. Of those, almost half of detections were attempts to visit a financial phishing page, where the aim was to obtain valuable personal information from users -- such as their account numbers for banking, credit… [Continue Reading]