Financial cybercriminal groups have started to concentrate their efforts on targeting large organizations, such as banks, payment processing systems, retailers, hotels and other businesses where POS terminals are widely used. The number of attacked users of this calibre started to grow again in 2016, following a decline in 2014 and 2015. Financial phishing is one of the most widespread cybercriminal activity and in 2016 we saw it become even more prevalent, increasing both in volume and in professionalism. The detection of phishing pages which mimicked legitimate banking services took first place in the overall chart for the first time in 2016.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/financial-cyberthreats-in-2016/77623/

