In 2019, cybercriminals switched focus from crypto-currency mining to digital trust and privacy issues, but financial threats persisted: threat actors continue to attempt stealing victims’ money, despite no major incidents being reported by the financial industry.
Last year, financial phishing accounted for 51.4% of all phishing detections, an increase from the 44.7% share it saw during the previous year. The security firm detected 467,188,119 phishing attempts in 2019.
Additionally, banking phishing accounted for 27% of all blocked attempts to visit phishing pages last year, Kaspersky says.
