Your money: How to safeguard yourself against phishing or malware attacks

In view of the growing frequency of such attacks, individuals need to adopt stringent measures

Phishing attacks aimed at stealing your money are increasing in frequency. Kaspersky Lab has found that 47.8 per cent of all the phishing attacks carried out in 2016 globally, which were blocked by its detection technologies, were financial phishing attacks. They were aimed at obtaining valuable personal information from the victim: bank account numbers, credit card and online banking passwords, and so on. Another threat that has emerged is from ransomware. In 2014-15, the percentage of users encountering ransomware as a proportion of all malware attacks stood at 3.77 per cent in India. That figure rose to 9.60 per cent