Less users in Armenia encountered phishing attacks in 2020
YEREVAN, February 22. /ARKA/. Internet users in Armenia experienced fewer phishing attacks in 2020 than in the previous year, according to a study by Kaspersky Lab.
According to the study, some 10.34% of users faced phishing attacks in Armenia in 2020, while in Georgia the share of such users was 9.69%, and in Azerbaijan - 10.89%.
In 2019, 14.52% of users in Armenia encountered phishing attacks. In Georgia, 13.83% of users faced such attacks in the same year, and 15.59% of users in Azerbaijan.
The global average phishing attack level in 2020 was 13.21% versus 15.17% a year earlier. In 2020, the antiphishing system prevented 434,898,635 attempts to navigate users to fraudulent pages. This is 32,289,484 fewer attempts than in 2019.
Last year Brazil was the first in terms of the number of phishing attacks -19.94%, followed by Portugal (19.73%) and France (17.90%).
“Over the previous few years, the three most common targets have been banks, payment systems and global Internet portals. In 2020 the main target were online stores (18.12%), which can be attributed to the increased number of online orders due to restrictions because of the pandemic. Global Internet portals were second (15.94%), but lost 5.18% compared to 2019, while banks dropped to third place with a modest 10.72%,” the company's experts note.
To avoid phishing attacks, experts recommend that users always verify the authenticity of the sender's address and the link it contains - if you are not sure of their trustworthiness, you should not open it. If the user nevertheless ended up on a website that looks doubtful, no personal data should be left there. If the user thinks that they could have accidentally transferred their password to hackers, it is urgent to change it.
It is also necessary to use a secure connection, especially when the user visits important sites (for example, Internet banking). Unsecure public Wi-Fi networks should be avoided whenever possible. It is imperative to use a suitable security solution with anti-phishing technologies. The program will warn the user if they try to go to a fraudulent page and will block it. --0--
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13:47 02/22/2021