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TRENDING
NUMBER OF USERS
ATTACKED BY BANKING
TROJANS GROW BY 16%
Research has revealed that 889,452 users of Kaspersky
Lab solutions were attacked by banking Trojans last year,
an increase of 15.9%. The cybersecurity and anti-virus
provider explain that South Africa was particularly hit.
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n 2018, 889,452 users of Kaspersky
Lab solutions were attacked by
banking Trojans, an increase of 15.9%
compared to 2017, when over 767,000 users
were hit. The growth partially occurred due
to increased activities of only one banker,
according to an analysis of the financial
threat landscape.
Attacks with banking Trojans or ‘bankers’ are
among the most popular for cybercriminals
as they are focused directly on financial gain.
This kind of malware steals credentials for
e-payment and online banking systems from
victims, intercepting one-time passwords,
and then sending the data to the attackers
behind the Trojan.
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Of the attacked users, almost 25% were
corporate ones, a figure that has remained
fairly consistent for the last three years.
According to Kaspersky Lab experts, the
reason behind this is clear – while attacks on
consumers will only provide access to banking
or payment system accounts, successful
hits on employees can also compromise a
company’s financial resources.
The collected data also shows that Russia
became the most targeted nation in
2018, accounting for over 22% of global
users attacked with banking malware. It is
followed by Germany (with a share of over
20%) and India (almost 4%).
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OUR DATA SHOWS
THAT INFAMOUS
BANKERS ARE
STILL THERE,
INCREASING
THEIR ATTACKS
AND HUNTING
FOR MONEY.
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