Illegal financial transactions are increasing
Illegal financial transactions: Cybercriminals take over customer accounts up 20 percent. In 2020, every second fraudulent transaction in finance and e-commerce was a successful takeover of a customer account by cyber criminals. According to anonymized international statistics recorded by the Kaspersky Fraud Prevention solution in the period from January to December 2020, the proportion of such incidents rose from 34 percent in 2019 to 54 percent in 2020. The Kaspersky experts see two main approaches among cybercriminals to gain the trust of potential victims: the supposed savior ...