Security News > 2020 > April > Financial Phishing Jumped to 51% of All Phishing in 2019: Kaspersky
Financial phishing has increased in frequency and accounted for more than half of all phishing detections last year, Kaspersky says.
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.
Banking phishing accounted for 27% of all blocked attempts to visit phishing pages last year, Kaspersky says.
According to Kaspersky, financial phishing encountered by Mac users accounted for 54% of the phishing attempts aimed at this category of users.
"Financial phishing is one of the most popular ways for criminals to make money. It doesn't require a lot of investment but if the criminals get the victim's credentials, they can either be used to steal money or sold," Kaspersky says.