Malice in the message: Phishing in messenger apps – The Financial Express

Messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers, with India among the top three countries experiencing the attacksVigilance combined with anti-phishing technologies form a reliable tool in the fight against phishing in messenger apps,” says Tatyana Shcherbakova, senior web content analyst at Kaspersky.Anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers. The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 was sent via WhatsApp (89.6%), followed by Telegram (5.6%). Viber is in third place with a share of 4.7% and Hangouts has less than 1%. Countries experiencing the highest number of phishing attacks were Russia (46%), Brazil (15%) and India (7%). Globally, 480 detections were recorded per day.According to the research, messenger apps outstripped social networks by 20% in 2020, in terms of popularity among users, and became the most popular tool for communication. Survey results also show that in 2020, the global audience for messengers amounted to 2.7 billion people, and by 2023 it is expected to grow to 3.1 billion. That is almost 40% of the world’s population.Kaspersky Internet Security for Android has added a new feature, Safe Messaging,…
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