Almost half (47.48 percent) of all phishing attacks in 2016 were aimed at stealing victim's money, and the amount of financial phishing attacks increased by 13.14 percent according to a new report. The study by Kaspersky Lab analyzed attacks registered in 2016 by the company's heuristic detection technologies. Kaspersky's anti-phishing technologies detected almost 155 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages last year. Of those, almost half of detections were attempts to visit a financial phishing page, where the aim was to obtain valuable personal information from users -- such as their account numbers for banking, credit…
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