"Kaspersky Lab": Facebook - the most popular resource among phishers

"Kaspersky Lab": Facebook - the most popular resource among phishers

According to statistics, "Kaspersky Lab" for 2013, 22% positives module "Phishing" is part of the company's products account for fake page and fake notifications Facebook. While tripping on imitation and other social networking sites blogerskogo add up to 13.5%. In total last year registered more than 600 million phishing incidents. Cybercriminals use a number of well-established methods to lure the victim to phishing resources. Typically, links to such pages attackers distribute letters imitating notifications from social networks. Also popular are e-mailing from compromised accounts for address list - for example, messages to friends with a proposal to link to view the interesting content.

At the same scammers often resort to intimidation and fake messages threaten the recipient blocking the account, which can be avoided by clicking on the link in the email and entering personal information on the next page - payment goes to a surge of emotion and the accompanying loss of vigilance. Owners of smartphones and tablets visiting social networks through their mobile devices, are not immune from phishing - scammers create special web pages that mimic the entrance to the account through a mobile application Facebook. When this plays into the hands of fraudsters that some mobile browsers hide the address bar when the page is opened, making it difficult to detect a fake.

"According to data for 2013, Facebook was in the lead by number of phishing incidents. In early 2014, the situation has changed, and the first place went Yahoo. However, Facebook is still kept top phishing targets: every day we fix more than 20,000 attempts to transition users to pages that mimic this social network. Not surprisingly, access to the accounts of Facebook users may need to set the fraudsters criminal purposes - from spam to extort money from the victim's friends. From our side we recommend to pay attention to the presence of a secure connection - Facebook uses HTTPS for data transmission. His absence is even correct URL of the page says that you are likely to be on a fraudulent resource "- advises Nadezhda Demidova, content analyst" Kaspersky Lab ".