Globally, the most popular apps on Android from May 2022 to April 2023 included YouTube (33%), TikTok (18%) and WhatsApp (18%). Roblox took fourth place (7%).
According to the cybersecurity firm, the study revealed that although ChatGPT knows a great deal about phishing and can guess the target of a phishing attack, it had high false positive rates of up to 64 percent.
The findings reveal that the use of ChatGPT as a helpful virtual ‘boost’ is already well underway, with 75% of all dating app users saying they would be exploring the use of ChatGPT to deliver the perfect chat up line.
Kaspersky said that the number of cryptocurrency-related phishing attacks prevented by its anti-phishing systems increased by 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year, with over 5 million attacks being stopped.
The $81-million Bangladesh Bank heist back in 2016 is an example of a successful cyber attack, which happened on the first day of Lunar New Year, a national holiday in the Philippines and the rest of Asia.
The latest Kaspersky research has revealed that cybercriminals posted more than one million messages mentioning escrow services on the dark Web from 2020 to 2022.
Indonesia chalked up the highest number of financial phishing incidents (208,238). Vietnam comes as a second close with 172,694, and Malaysia recorded 120,656. Thailand logged 101,461 phishing attempts related to finances, followed by the Philippines with 52,914, and Singapore with 22,109.
