India Among Top Four Countries To Be Targeted By Phishing Attacks

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has announced the findings of its May 2012 Fraud Report, ranking India amongst top four countries targeted by phishing attacks by brands. 50 percent of all phishing attacks worldwide in April were on brands present in US, UK, Australia and India.

April 2011 also saw 86 percent increase in the total number of global phishing attacks as compared to the previous month, with a total of 35,558 unique phishing attacks identified by RSA globally.

As per RSA’s AFCC May 2012 report, Citadel Trojan’s fourth upgraded version is already available in the market. Citadel Trojan is based on Zeus Code and it has all the functions going way beyond any crimeware kit till date. Citadel is the only commercial malware in the cybercrime arena being aggressively marketed to criminals and is a crimeware kit to be reckoned with in 2012. RSA noticed 20 percent increase in the use of Citadel in the Trojan attacks detected between March – April 2012.

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Other highlights in the report are:

• As of May, 2012, Brands in the U.S., UK, Australia and India were targeted by almost 50 percent of phishing attacks in April, followed by Canada, Brazil and Italy

• U.S. nationwide brands saw a 24 percent increase in phishing attacks in April

• In April, only five countries endured more than one percent of phishing attack volume – with over 90 percent of the entire volume targeted at the UK, Canada and the U.S.