Cyber fraud cases: Cyber fraud cases are increasing rapidly across the country. Scammers are coming up with new tricks to cheat people every day. Cyber security firms have been sharing information about such threats with people from time to time. Recently, Kaspersky has also recorded a significant increase in cases of password theft. In this list, Amazon, Facebook, Google users are being targeted more.
Fraudsters are targeting Google, Facebook and Amazon users more. Cyber crimes like data theft, malware distribution, credit card fraud are committed by hacking their accounts. If scammers get access to Google accounts, then it is no less than a treasure. Google accounts are the most favorite platform of cyber criminals in case of password theft.
Kaspersky’s data shocked
According to Kaspersky, a lot of attempts have been made to target Google accounts in the first six months of 2024. The number of these cases has increased by 243 percent. At the same time, 40 lakh attempts have also been blocked by Kaspersky Security Solution. This number is much higher than last year. According to Kaspersky, there have been 37 lakh phishing attacks on Facebook users. Apart from this, 30 lakh attacks have been registered on Amazon users. The top 10 also include Microsoft, DHL, PayPal, Mastercard, Apple, Netflix and Instagram.
How do scammers target?
Let us tell you that scammers make direct calls or send text messages to hack passwords. More than 130 organizations have been targeted in America. Apart from this, people are also being targeted through QR codes. You can take the help of cyber security service providers to avoid this.
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