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Messaging apps are becoming some of the most popular smartphone programs in the world, and that means more attempts to phish their users, Kaspersky finds.

New data from Kaspersky reveals that messaging apps for Android devices are wildly popular targets for phishing scammers.

Of all the phishing attempts on Android messaging platforms between December 2020 and May 2021, WhatsApp led the pack with a whopping 89.6% of detected attacks.

According to research cited by Kaspersky, messaging apps are overtaking social media platforms as the most popular tool for communication, and will continue to do so in the years to come.

Along with popularity, many messaging apps also have features that make phishing easier for attackers, Shcherbakova said.

The detections of malicious links in WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, and Google Hangouts were made on devices with the version of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android that featured a new Safe Messaging feature that tries to prevent users from opening malicious links.

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