India Third Most Targeted Country By Phishing: Report

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has announced the findings of its November 2012 Fraud Report, ranking India amongst top five countries targeted by phishing attacks by brands.

November 2012 also saw India as the third highest most targeted by volume with 7 percent of all global phishing attacks led by U.S. and U.K.

India replaced Canada, who saw a significant decrease from 27 percent of total attack volume in October to just 4 percent in November.

The RSA’s AFCC November 2012 report takes a look at Ransomware, a Trojan/malware that can lock files on an infested machine and restrict access to the computer unless the user agrees to pay a ‘ransom’ for the restrictions to be removed.

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Other highlights in the report are:

• Phishing attacks increased 24 percent in November with 41,834 attacks identified by RSA. To date, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center has shut down 767,442 cyber attacks.

• The U.S. and UK were targeted by the most volume of phishing attacks in November, but India emerged as the third most targeted, enduring 7 percent of phishing attack volume last month.

• This month’s highlight looks at a new malware kit that RSA analysed going for sale in the underground for $899. The malware offers a ransomware component that locks down files on all Windows-based machines. A look at the botnet control panel shows infection rates up to 20 percent.