New Phishing Activity Detected

Kaspersky Labs has made about the 'phishing' wildcards' newly included in the company's antivirus database every month.

Based on these calculations, in 2013 an average of 96.069 phishing wildcards every month. But that number has increased dramatically in the first half of this year 2014 an average of 113.500 phishing wildcards tracked each month, an increase of 17.5% over 2013.

Not only are more fake links found, it was removed intentionally faster. Short lifetime makes it more difficult to detect by anti-phishing program.

Content Analyst at Kaspersky Labs, Nadezhda Demidova comment, Phishing is an easy way to trick Internet users to provide personal data and financial information.

"Hackers will create a phishing link every minute and it usually operate only a few hours. This strategy makes it impossible to give a bad reputation to the next site of the included in anti-phishing database designed security company, "he said.

"This is changing the rules created for anti-phishing products before. Now we have to examine all the relevant wildcard phishing database. We work with this malware perishable so fast reaction at each update is critical and important. "He added.

Kaspersky Labs share the 8 steps to prevent themselves from being caught by a phishing website:

1.Jangan click suspicious links or received from unknown sources in the email.

2.Taip website address in the browser address bar manually

3.Periksa bar website promptly after the expiration of displaying website
all content, to ensure the same domain name as desired

4.Periksa whether the website uses a secure connection is https

5.Jika you have even the slightest doubt on the website, do not enter any personal information under any circumstances

6. To ensure the validity of the website, please contact the company via its official website

7.Elakkan from entering sensitive data such as financial information when using public WiFi connection

8.Gunakan applications and anti-phishing security program

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