RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced the findings
of its November 2012 Fraud Report, ranking India amongst top five
countries targeted by phishing attacks by brands.
November 2012 also saw India as the third highest most targeted
by volume with 7 percent of all global phishing attacks lead by
U.S. and U.K. India replaced Canada, which saw a significant
decrease from 27 percent of total attack volume in October to just
4 percent in November.
The RSA’s AFCC November 2012 report takes a look at
Ransomware, a Trojan/malware that can lock files on an
infested machine and restrict access to the computer unless the
user agrees to pay a ‘ransom’ for the restrictions to
be removed.
Other highlights of the report are:
- Phishing attacks increased 24 percent in November with 41,834
attacks identified by RSA. To date, the RSA Anti-Fraud Command
Center has shut down 767,442 cyber attacks. - The U.S. and UK were targeted by the most volume of phishing
attacks in November, but India emerged as the third most targeted,
enduring 7 percent of phishing attack volume last month. - This month’s highlight looks at a new malware kit that
RSA analyzed going for sale in the underground for USD 899.
The malware offers a ransomware component that locks down
files on all Windows-based machines. A look at the botnet
control panel shows infection rates up to 20 percent.