60% of phishing attacks were via fake Facebook pages

Ammon – Kaspersky Lab managed to block more than 3.7 million attempts to visit counterfeit social media pages in the first quarter of this year, noting that 60% of the attempts was a fake Facebook page.
These attempts are part of a long-term trend.In 2017, Facebook has become one of the top three targets of phishing attacks in general, about 8%, followed by Microsoft's 6% 5 %.
In the first quarter of 2018, Facebook came top of the social networks most vulnerable to phishing attacks, followed by the VK service.
According to Kaspersky Lab
• The main targets of phishing attacks have remained unchanged since the end of last year, mainly concerning global Internet portals and financial sector destinations such as banks and services. of payment,
• Brazil was the country with the highest percentage of users attacked in the first quarter of 2018 by 19%, followed by Argentina 13%, Venezuela 13%, the United States. 39, Albania 13% and Bolivia 12%.
Vietnam became the most popular source of spam The top 10 countries in the world were India, Germany, France, Brazil, Russia, Spain and Spain. 39; Iran.
Germany was the country most targeted by malicious attacks, followed by Russia, Britain, Italy and the UAE. 19659003] Thank you for visiting our website and if you have any questions about this news 60% of phishing attacks have been via fake Facebook pages Please let us know or leave a comment here -Dessous
Source: Ammon News Agency