Cyber criminals phish for data via messenger apps
Due to their popularity, messenger apps such as WhatsApp continue to be a popular tool for phishing scammers, according to a recent analysis by Kaspersky. According to this, 2020 malicious links in connection with messengers were blocked worldwide between December 2021 and May 94.559. That corresponds to more than 500 incidents per day. 89,6 percent of this was on WhatsApp, 5,6 percent on Telegram, 4,7 percent on Viper and less than 0,1 percent on Hangouts. In Germany, 96 percent of phishing attempts took place via WhatsApp. Dangerous links via WhatsApp Messenger apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram are popular and will ...
