CIOL:Increase in phishing attacks on Indian domains

BANGALORE: Phishing attacks on Indian domains increased three-fold in 2006 compared to the previous year.

In its annual report, CERT-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), which is under the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, said that 339 phishing incidents were reported during the year.

In 2005 it was 101 attacks and in 2004 only three incidents were reported.

“The most widespread phishing attacks reported in 2006 are carried out against e-Commerce sector. It is accounting for 76 per cent. The second most targeted sector is Financial Services, which accounts for 24 per cent for the total number of incidents reported in the year 2006. Of the total phishing incidents handled in 2006, the cases in which Indian Financial Institutions were involved were about 2 per cent and rest belonging to outside India”, said report.

According to a Gartner survey, the financial losses from phishing attacks have raised to more than $2.8 billion in the year 2006.

In the same period, over 5211 instances of website defacements have been tracked. Most of the defacements were done for the websites under .com domain. In total 226 .in domain websites were defaced.

“In the month of August unusual increase has been noticed in the year 2005 as well as in the year 2006. In the year 2006 total 1311 defacements were tracked on Indian websites during the month of August,” the report said.

In 2006, 70 Indian government websites were defaced. In February, websites of Government of Punjab were targeted and in November, Government of Rajasthan websites were targeted. “Indian websites received the highest defacement on a single day on August 14, 2006, a one day before the Independence day. Around 320 Indian websites were defaced on that day by a hacker group called Cyberlords.

On the operating system wise, .com domain on the Windows OS was targeted most with 1853 attacks and 1293 attacks on Linux operating system for .com domain. Overall, 2908 domains on the Windows OS were defaced while 2235 domain under the Linux were attacked.

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