Financial Cyberthreats in 2019 (Phishing, Banking malware)

guest · Apr 16, 2020

Financial Cyberthreats in 2019
April 16, 2020
https://securelist.com/financial-cyberthreats-in-2019/96692/

Financial cyberthreats are malicious programs that target users of services such as online banking, e-money, and cryptocurrency, or that attempt to gain access to financial organizations and their infrastructure. These threats are usually accompanied by spam and phishing activities, with malicious users creating fake financial-themed pages and emails to steal victims’ credentials.

In order to study the threat landscape of the financial sector, our researchers analyzed malicious activity on the devices of individual users of Kaspersky’s security solutions. Statistics for corporate users were collected from corporate security solutions, after the customers agreed to share their data with Kaspersky.
The information obtained was compared with data for the same period in 2018 to monitor the trends in malware development.
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Conclusion and advice
2019 has demonstrated that cybercriminals continue to update their malware with new features, investing resources in new distribution methods and techniques to avoid detection. The increase in banking Trojan activity targeting corporate users is also of concern as such attacks could bring more problems than attacks on ordinary users.

This all means that malicious users are still gaining financially from their activities.
As the above threat data shows, there is still plenty of motivation for financial fraud operations involving phishing and specialized banking malware
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guest · Apr 16, 2020

Kaspersky Report Shows UAE Represents 37% of Banking Malware Attacks in Middle East in 2019
April 16, 2020
https://www.albawaba.com/business/p...s-37-banking-malware-attacks-middle-east-2019

In 2019, 773,943 users of Kaspersky solutions were attacked by banking Trojans. Of those users, a third (35.1%) were in the corporate sector.
Middle Eastern corporate sector was affected too, with Egypt being the most targeted country and the highest in terms of the share of affected corporate users attacked by banking malware – 43%. This is among the findings from Kaspersky's analysis of the financial threat landscape.

The collected data also shows that Egypt held its position as the most targeted nation in Middle East in 2019, accounting for 43% corporate of users out of all attacked by banking malware.

“While the overall number of attacks with bankers decreased in 2019, the growing interest for corporate users’ credentials indicates we are not yet seeing respite from financial threats. We therefore ask everyone to stay cautious when conducting financial operations online from PCs. [...]” said Oleg Kupreev, security expert at Kaspersky.
The key findings of the report are:
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Phishing:
• In 2019, the share of financial phishing increased from 44.7% of all phishing detections to 51.4%. [...]
Banking malware (Windows):
• In 2019, the number of users attacked with banking Trojans was 773,943 – a decrease compared to the 889,452 attacked in 2018. [...]
Android banking malware:
• In 2019, the number of users that encountered Android banking malware dropped to just over 675,000 from around 1.8 million. [...]
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