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One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
Phishers only need to land a minute percentage of victims to make scams worthwhile.
Stats culled from Trusteer’s anti-phishing browser plug-in, which is offered by banks to their clients as a transaction security add-on, revealed that 0.47 per cent of a bank’s customers fall victim to phishing attacks each year. The figure comes from the number of users who visited and attempted to enter data onto a known phishing site but escaped because they were using Trusteer’s Rapport browser security plug-in.
Half (45 per cent) of bank customers who are redirected towards a phishing site attempted to hand over their login credentials.
The overall response rate to phishing scams translates to between $2.4m-$9.4m in annual fraud losses (per one million online banking clients), according to Trusteer.
via One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over • The Register.
