According to Kaspersky principal security researcher David Emm, South Africa is experiencing a surge in online threats such as phishing, online shopping scams, mobile malware, and cryptocurrency miners. He emphasizes the importance of user awareness and cybersecurity measures to mitigate these risks.
Phishing , online shopping scams , and mobile malware are among the biggest online threats to South African residents, with attempts to install cryptocurrency miners on users’ devices also being fairly common in the country.
According to Emm, Kaspersky products blocked nearly 3.4 million different Internet-borne threats on computers connected to the Kaspersky Security Network in South Africa.Phishing and scam websites are on the rise on a global scale, with Kaspersky’s anti-phishing system blocking more than 709 million attempts to access such sites in 2023, a 40% increase compared to the year before.
According to Kaspersky’s global financial cyber threats report for 2023, malicious actors presenting themselves as legitimate online stores account for 41.65% of all financial phishing pages. “Spyware can steal data from an infected smartphone, a list of contacts and user account information on the device, documents, and also record from a device’s microphone upon command.”
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