A recent study brings to light concerning statistics : the phishing attacks highly increased their number (six time) on the country's lenders. And this is in the last four months alone. It is known that through phishing can be stolen credit cards details, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords for obtaining money.
The scam is done with the help of spoof emails and fake websites that convince users to give their private data. If in October last year were known 20 unique attacks on Indian banks, in January 2008, the cases augmented with 100, announced the 24X7 Security Response Lab of Pune-based internet security firm Symantec.
Symantec Director Security Response Prabhat Kumar Singh considers that the attacks are successful because they are "more localized, subtle and target-specific". The phishers desire to become reach.
The complete threat spectrum and malware activity all across the world is monitored by The Symantec lab. In order not to be installed spyware, trojans, worms and viruses, the company offers support in 14 foreign languages.
Maybe because "a large number of home PC users do not even have a basic security feature", as Singh declared, in Mumbai with 38 per cent and New Delhi with 29 per cent, were reported phishing attacks, according with Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report. .
The malicious code in India contains 57 per cent worms and 21 per cent virus attacks. The more complex threads like Trojan are presented in a 20 per cent.
HDFC Bank even filed a police complaint against a "money mule" scammer. This is a trick employed by the phishers, to transfer money from one account to another, using as a mule a bank customer.
