![]() Apart from banking malware (83%), financial threats are posed by Bitcoin miners (9%) – these are malware programmes that use the victim’s computer’s computational resources to generate bitcoins, as well as bitcoin wallet stealers (6%) and keyloggers (2%). Note that most countries in the TOP 10 are technologically advanced and/or have a developed banking system, which attracts the cybercriminals’ attention.įinancial threats are not limited to banking malware programmes which attack the clients of online banking systems. Next came Switzerland with 4.2%, Brazil (4%), Australia (4%) and Hong Kong (3.7%). In Q2 2015, Singapore became the leader in the number of Kaspersky Lab users who came under web-borne attacks by banking Trojans – 5.3% of all Kaspersky Lab users in Singapore faced this threat over this time period. There were 5,900,000 notifications about attempted malware infections to steal money via online access to bank accounts – this is 800,000 lower than in Q1. Its main goal is to steal the user’s login credentials with which to attack, among others, several popular email applications. The Trojan’s latest version that emerged in Q2 is capable of attacking 114 (four times more) banking and financial applications. Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 2015 report mentioned which was capable of attacking no less than 29 banking and financial applications. Mobile banking has remained a main target for mobile threats. There were 1 million mobile malware installation packages in Q2, which is 7 times greater than in Q1. ![]() 291,800 new mobile malware programmes emerged in Q2, which is 2.8 times greater than in Q1.Next on the list came the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Virgin Islands, Ukraine, Singapore, the UK and China. Kaspersky Lab has published its Q2 cyberthreats report highlighting key security incidents of the quarter and evaluating the Q2 cyberthreat level.ĥ1% of web-borne attacks blocked by Kaspersky Lab’s products were launched from malicious web resources located in Russia.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |