24th May, 2018 By Phil Muncaster
Facebook dominated attempts to phish unsuspecting netizens in the first quarter of the year, accounting for 60% of all social network phishing attacks during the period, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The Russian AV vendor claimed in its Spam and phishing in Q1 2018 report to have blocked 3.6 million attempts to visit fraudulent social media pages.
Following Facebook, Russian social platform VK (21%), and LinkedIn (13%) were most commonly spoofed — with victims tricked into handing over names, log-ins, and even credit card numbers.
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Phishers Target Facebook to Harvest User Data
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