India is among the top countries to be hit by phishing attacks, according to a recent contemplate publicized by Kaspersky Lab. Phishing is an online scamming technique where people are tricked in sharing up their personalized message. Such attacks bang grown by 87 proportion over the then twelvemonth globally, according to Kasperky Lab.

Phishing is a merciful of internet shenanigan where cyber criminals create false web pages of popular web sites to get personalised collection from users. The sites are usually cognate to nonclassical websites suchlike banking, netmail couple, or can be any fashionable networking tract. Most of the emails dispatched are from secure websites equivalent Yahoo, Facebook or Google.

"In 2012-2013, 102,100 users around the earth were subjected to phishing attacks on a daily assumption. In Russia, 19,000 users were attacked apiece day, 12,000 in the US, 10,000 in India, 6,000 in Deutschland, 3,000 in Author, and another 3,000 in the UK," the Kaspersky Lab describe stated. The interrogatory promote reads that in 2012-2013, roughly 37.3 cardinal users were subjected to phishing attacks globally, up 87 percent from 2011-2012.

"Most oft, phishing attacks targeted users in Ussr, the US, India, War and the UK. Phishing attacks were most ofttimes launched from the US, the UK, Germany, Land and Bharat," the examination highlighted. Character, Google, Facebook and River are top targets of malicious users. Online fearless websites, online payment sites, the depository websites and else entry and financial groups are also frequent targets, it superimposed.