Intelligent CISO Issue 05 | Page 63

Mobile banking trojan modifications reach all-time high obile banking trojans hit the list of cyberheadaches in Q2 2018. The number of installation packages for mobile banking – modifications which help attackers avoid detection by security solutions and to expand their arsenal – peaked at more than 61,000. M This represents a historic high – more than a three-fold growth when compared with Q1 2018 and over double the installations than in Q1 2017. This is just one of the main findings from Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 IT threat evolution report. Mobile banking trojans are one of the most infamous types of malware as they are designed to steal money directly from mobile users’ bank acc