Finance remains top target for phishing attacks as scammers exploit GDPR

New figures from Kaspersky Lab show that more than a third (35.7 percent) of phishing attempts in the second quarter of 2018 attempts were related to financial services via fraudulent banking or payment pages. The IT sector was second hardest hit, with 13.83 percent of attacks targeting technology companies, a 12.28 percent increase compared to Q1. Cryptocurrency remains a prime target too. There were almost 60,000 attempts to visit fraudulent web pages featuring popular cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges from April to June 2018. In addition to traditional phishing, which tries to access victim accounts and private key information, cybercriminals try… [Continue Reading]