India ranks second on piracy list

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A new report found that phishing accounts for 29 percent of all phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2019, while India ranks second behind the United States in the list of leading countries for phishing online.

According to the Indian TOI website, "while overall phishing has increased by less than a quarter percent during this quarter, in terms of total fraud, phishing has declined sharply because of the explosive growth of attacks from rogue mobile applications," according to the report. Increased 300 percent from 10,390 applications in the last quarter to 41,313 in the first quarter of 2019.

Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by hiding itself as a trustworthy entity in e-mail. Fraud attacks that provide financial malware increased 56 percent, from 6,603 in the quarter In the first quarter of 2019.

In the first quarter, the total number of fraudulent financial transactions reported declined by 25%, of which 72% came from the mobile phone channel. Fraud from mobile browsers decreased slightly from 49% in the last quarter to 43%, while fraud increased from hardware applications Slightly moving from 21 percent to 29 percent.

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