Approximately 30% of users have received bogus emails claiming to
come from banks, according to the Kaspersky Consumer Security Risks
survey.
The fraudsters often use fake
notifications from banks in order to trick users into handing over
account credentials and giving away access to their money. Various
services for online transactions (e-banking, e-payment systems and
online stores) are now an intrinsic part of modern life for many users.
The B2B international survey shows that 95% of respondents have been
online shopping, 91% have used the services of online banking and 74%
have used e-payment systems.
According to the
survey, 30% of users have received emails allegedly coming from a bank
which turned out to be bogus. 22% of respondents reported suspicious
messages supposedly sent on behalf of an online store. Every tenth user
(10% of those surveyed) had been automatically redirected at least once
to a suspicious site asking them to enter their credit card credentials.
Nearly 6% of respondents stated that they have entered financial
information on dubious sites. These are all examples of the activity of
cybercriminals engaged in phishing, one of many types of malicious
attacks targeting important confidential financial data: credit card
numbers, logins and passwords to online banking accounts.
About
4% of respondents reported that they had lost money to cybercriminals.
"Statistically, 4% is a relatively small figure, but when so many users
are attacked each year, even a small success rate translates into big
money. According to The Evolution of Phishing Attacks 2011-2013 survey,
among the users of the cloud service, 21% of phishing attacks performed
between April and May 2012-2013, involved fake pages of banks and other
financial organizations. In absolute figures it means that within just
one year 7.5 million users worldwide faced financial phishing.
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