RSA, The Security Division of EMC today announced the findings of its May 2013 Fraud Report, ranking India amongst top three countries targeted by phishing attacks by brands; the other countries being US and UK. Close to 46 percent ofphishing attacks worldwide in April were on brands present in these three countries. India ranked 4th on thet, targeted with 8 percent of the total phishing volume worldwide
In April 2013, there was 10 percent increase in the total number of global phishing attacks as compared to the previous month, with a total of 26,902 unique phishing attacks identified by RSA.
As per the report, number of phishing attacks recorded monthly is known to vary, and there is limited capability to forecast a trend that is so dependent on fraudster resources. Although total is often tricky to predict, some seasonal trends do repeat every year such as the holiday shopping season when a rise
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