.IN domain most sought after for Indian phishing attacks

Symantec’s latest analysis of the cyber threat landscape has revealed the rise of .in URLs in spam.

Last year, the India domain (.in) ranked 10th in the distribution list, while it has now jumped to the 5th position. Furthermore, 25 per cent of phishing attacks on Indian brands used the .in domain.

In May 2012, Symantec Intelligence also observed a whopping 187 per cent rise over the previous month in phishing attacks on Indian brands, all of which were in the banking sector. While these originated around the world, Hyderabad hosted the second highest number of phishing attacks on Indian brands. Hyderabad also tops the list of cities for this month that hosted phishing sites in India of non-Indian brands followed by Nashik, New Delhi and Bangalore on the 3rd and 4th place respectively................

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