Phishing attacks, the most common form of cyber crime, are on a rise, both in India and globally. According to a recent report by Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, 37.3 million users around the world were subjected to phishing attacks in 2012-13, up from 87 per cent a year ago. Roughly 10 per cent – 3.7 million annually or around 10,000 per day – of these attacks were targeted at India, which is the third biggest victim after Russia and the US. Kaspersky found that 87.9 per cent of attacks were launched when users were surfing the web services of Yahoo, Facebook, Google and Amazon being targeted the most by hosting fake copies of these websites.