According to a recent report by Kaspersky Lab, India is among the top three countries facing phishing attacks primarily via instant mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
Further, the report added that the biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 were sent via WhatsApp (89.6 per cent), followed by Telegram (5.6 per cent). Meanwhile, messaging app Viber was in third place with a share of 4.7 per cent and Hangouts had less than one per cent share.
Countries experiencing the highest number of phishing attacks were Russia at 46 per cent, Brazil at 15 per cent and India at 7 per cent, Kaspersky said. The report highlighted that phishing in instant messenger apps is still one of the most popular tools among scammers. This is partly due to the wide popularity of these apps among the audience, as well as the ability to use the built-in functionality of applications to carry out attacks.
